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Artwork[edit]

In her sculptures Anna Chromy gives a contemporary reinterpration of classical themes. Her bronze and marble sculptures are figurative, but radically modern. Using today’s engineering techniques Anna Chromy creates monumental works which seem to fly, to move, to dance. Unless they are commissioned, she eliminates the faces in order to create timeless archetypes.

Quotes and Art Critics[edit]

"Anna Chromy detests immobility as symbol of death", Philippe Cruysmans, op. cit.

In his article contributed to the book Chromy/Europe Antonio Paolucci, former Minister of Culture, Superintendent of Regione Toscana and the Polo Museale Fiorentino, wrote in his article entitled "Sculptures inhabited by the Spirit of Prometheus": "Anna Chromy detests immobility as symbol of death", once wrote about her Philippe Cruysmans, art critic for the "Figaro". "What am I searching in my sculptures? To transform into movement the face of each loss, it's emptiness." With these words the artist herself explains the reasons of her creativity: Only movement stylized in rhythm and aesthetically shaped can fill the void, soothe anguish, give temporary answers to the enigma of the present. All this is however insufficient to fully delve into her sculptures. Anna Chromy's sculptures are inhabitated by the spirit of Prometheus/Proteus. In a literal sense, since Proteus was the god of methamorphosis and wonder, of inconstancy and ubiquitousness. Just as Proteus could turn into fire or a lion, into a cloud or a sword, so are Anna Chromy's sculptures reality and myth, vision and premonition, sumptuously dazzling dominion of visible reality and transfigural memory of distant ages. It's important to underline that the mutations take place in sudden concomitance, they cross the same work, compelling the spectator to adopt multiple, contrasting and, in a certain sense even ambiguous, mental and sentimental approaches. It is impossible to keep still (mentally and psychologically, I mean) in front of Anna Chromy's sculptures, nor think about only one thing at a time. This - one is tempted to say - is surrealism. Of course it is, if we want to use the terms of 20th century art history. It would be quite trite to reduce Anna Chromy to one of Salvador Dali's versions or Leonor Fini's. For those scholars of ancient art history like me, her surrealism has deeper roots and more complex cultural motivations. I find it impossible to ingnore the fact that Anna Chromy was born in Bohemia, that she is a daughter of Central Europe and has lived in the magic triangle Vienna-Prague-Salzburg. Nor can I forget that she lives in Tuscany and that Pietrasanta is her present home; Pietrasanta with its beautiful shell-shaped square, art foundries inhabited by genious and mystery, much to Benvenuto Cellini's tastes. All this is not devoid of meaning. Looking at Anna Chromy's sculptures, it's almost inevitable to think about the Manierist artists of the late 16th century (Spranger and Arcimboldo), or Bernardo Buontalenti's magic grotesque, or about the incredible Austrian and Bohemian Baroque hyperboles, rather than Dali'. I've never been able to gaze at her bronzes and marbles without thinking that technical perfection, accomplished craftsmanship, "artificio" as 16th century theorists would have put it, are a sort of religion for our refined sculptress.For her, just as for the Mannerist "virtuoso", skills, knowledge and techniques are not mere instruments to achieve an end, but are a result in themselves. In front of the sculptures as displayed in the fascinating scenario of Place Vendome in Paris, it's reasonable to think about the origins of contemporary art springing from our ancient Europe, where everything is held together, and everything one way or another, sooner or later, comes back".

A quote by Swarowski[edit]

"Swarowski, the world leader in cut crystal, takes great pleasure in supporting the exhibition of Anna Chromy's monumental sculptures in bronze and marble on Place Vendome. Swarowski sees in the artist not only a sculptress of extraordinary artistic talent, but also a quintessential European, who shares with the crystal company the same Central European roots and soul. Indeed there are many paralells in the life of the sculptress, born in Bohemia and raised in Austria, with Daniel Swarovski, the founder of the dynasty of cristal art. Both, Chromy and Swarovski, share the fascination to create objects of rare beauty, combining the intensity of emotion with the exploration of the subconscious. The "Joie de Vivre" which Anna Chromy expresses so perfectly in her works of art is exactly the same the cristallery Swarowski tries to capture in it's creations. Swarovski has a cornerstone policy to support the arts and cultural activities, in particular those that reflect its own artistic and cultural roots."

Another NPOV phrase: The perfection of the bodies of Anna Chromy's sculptures clearly show the influence of Michelangelo, Bernini and other classical masters, used in combination with the engineering techniques of contemporary architecture. Andreabergamasco 20:35, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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