The cycle In Wonderland has an apocalyptic character.. Its in abandoned amusement parks, which are destroyed. Its like a day "after".. People are gone - somewhere they are returning back.. The paintings are expressing a sense of concern. They are based on anxiety about what is happening to the Nature.. I perceive very strong climate change and with that connected the crisis - is a very big problem.. Nature can be without us, but we can not be without Nature. 

"Animals from the series In Wonderland occupy the abandoned amusement park. The inspiration for this series stems especially from the artist’s visit of Spreepark in Berlin and pictures of American amusement parks destroyed by natural catastrophes. After its bankruptcy after the beginning of the new millennia, Spreepark became a favorite spot for urban exploring and nowadays there are attempts to revitalize the park for cultural purposes. Before that, its structures were appropriated by the new forms of life – the presence of animals brought another dimension of life there – a different one than the life filled with consumption. The destiny of Spreepark is not singular. Debris and ruins of the previously popular mass entertainment attractions are a symbolical monument to times of fetishization of the new and the modern and its connection to the technological progress. This desert island of artificially created entertainment is cohabitated with plastic swans and wolves in a touristically attractive
postapocalyptic setting that could soon become our daily reality due to the ignorance of natural laws and escalation of climate change crisis."
Miroslava Urbanová

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