Jaroslava Hýžová dedicated her work to her native region and the people who live in harmony with it. Her characteristic poetic paintings are known from many ceremonial halls, schools and other public spaces. However, her entire oeuvre is much more varied and has many different artistic positions. And these are the content of the new exhibition Painting Transformations by Jaroslava Hýžová, prepared by the Museum of the Moravian Wallachia Region at the Kinský Chateau in Valašské Meziříčí. Thirty paintings are on display come from the museum's collection (with three exceptions). There will also be interesting interactivities, such as the so-called haptic image (colourless copy) of the painting Arid Landscape, where visitors can feel the structural position of the painter's work, or the jigsaw puzzle of the painting Tragedy of War II revealing the compositional laws of the painting.

Jaroslava Hýžová came from Prostřední Bečva and worked as a teacher at a number of schools in the region of Wallachia and Haná. At the end of the 1930s she was forced to change her profession and decided to devote herself fully to painting, as she had always wished. Her work initially reflected the  contemporary art tendencies before becoming anchored in lyrically symbolic themes.

The exhibition consists mainly paintings purchased in 2021 through subsidy funds from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, introduces the breakthrough phases of Jaroslava Hýžová's painting work. It includes very early works as well as paintings of the so-called blue period, which are characteristic of her work in the 1960s. The paintings tending towards abstraction - including paintings completely free from reality – are usually thematically related to trees and landscapes. The exhibition concludes with structural paintings with a distinct structure.

The opening of the exhibition will take place at the Kinský Chateau on Saturday 14 January at 4 pm, with music by the Wallachian Selection with Petr Baklík and on Sunday 5 March at 4 pm you can come for a guided tour with the curator of the exhibition Kamila Valoušková.