All
About Eve
Dasa
Bausova
What about Eve? What about the original sin, as it relates to this point in time? We no longer have to deal with just self-generated desires, but also with desires that are artificially created, packaged and dispersed by professionals to sell us products and ideologies. Temptation is ever present...it is the donut, the shirt we don't need, the time killed at the mall, the "B" movie, the latest self-help book or religion, the "friend" or "lover" that really is no friend at all. We are bombarded with messages and objects, including sex and gender characterizations.
The ancient concept of sin in both Hebrew and Hindu cultures related to the art of archery. It simply meant being off target. All Eve did was bite an apple...what a beautifully benign symbol for the potent concept of getting a taste for knowledge. This simple allegory of an act changed the nature and history of "man" in western Judeo-Christian cultures. How curious that a woman was the catalyst and that she was culturally punished thereafter. What in effect might have been the nature of her decision, the dance of her seduction? Are we beguiled the same way every time we go to McDonald's, watch a sitcom or pick up a copy of Cosmo?
Dasa Bausova's colorful, highly charged works stem from her upbringing in communist Czechoslovakia, where absurdity and humor were a matter of survival.The unusual circumstances of her early life create a backdrop for a unique vision of a complex world gone askew. Psychological, ideological and sensual elements are inseparable in Bausova's images and narratives. "I mostly like to play with the discrepancies between our convictions and our actions. Any system, big or small, political or personal, always begins and ends with a plethora of micro decisions we make at every moment of our existence. I like to convey these minute instants as events of mythological proportions. It amuses me that so often, these seemingly insignificant flashes in time essentially rule our lives," the artist explains.Dasa Bausova's work appears in private collections throughout the United States, South America and Europe, and public collections at the National Czech and Slovak Museum and the Museum of European Art in the US. She currently lives and works near Aspen, Colorado.