Underground Passage III

Alena Kučerová has dealt with landscape in her graphic art since the 1960s, but she did not make it into the specific countryside around the town of Stará Boleslav until the 1980s. While her first compositions were flat with minimalist perforation, by means of which she created trees, haystacks, footbridges, etc., in her other prints she chose a more complex technique of relief, which introduced a dramatic spatial “drawing” element into her graphic art. The matrix Underground Passage III is an example of this process, combining perforation with a wrought landscape relief.