... took place a short time ago in the unique Hálk Theatre, which is the cultural pride of both Nymburk in the Elbe region and the entire Central Bohemia region. This shrine to the boards that mean the world has had ninety years of activity in a representative building of functionalist style, and is an important monument of the historical centre of the town. It has also been the birthplace of local native Eva Hrubá for many decades. The author of fifteen poetry collections, actress, director, radio journalist and, last but not least, painter.
The newly renovated foyer of the theatre, which serves not only as a theatre café but also as an exhibition hall, was filled with 17. This year, on April 17, the theatre's auditorium was filled to the last seat of the improvised auditorium, where the guests applauded for long minutes standing at the end of an extraordinary evening for the artist Eva Hrubá and her musical colleagues, the top violinist Alexander Shonert, the pianist and composer Lubomír Mủller, and the singer Lída Žembery, accompanying herself on guitar.
For fifty minutes, Eva Hrubá, on a small stage, impressively and with all the commitment to the edge of her physical strength, recited and performed a selection of poetry from her latest collection, which was published under the title Tender Nakedness of Truth. The ceremonial launch of a book of her poems in an atypical format, with a cloth cover, became the proverbial icing on the cake of this memorable cultural evening.
Reincarnation of Hana Hegerová
Eva (born June 12, 1951), who chose the pseudonym Ave Abuhr by joining social media - read backwards, because she's not rude - was an up-and-coming county poet in her day and is now a poet of national importance. On the Nymburk stage of the Hálk Theatre, where she has long excelled as an actress, writer and director, she has left a distinctive mark along with other Czech theatres. She has more than two thousand original performances and recitals to her credit. It is equally impossible to forget her radio debates „To the marrow“ on Patriot radio.
The enthusiastic standing applause of the audience has been experienced many times during the performances of the AdiE.H Poetry Theatre in the legendary Rubín or Viola, or in various galleries, clubs, cultural houses and small theatre stages and cinemas. Wherever it is possible to meet Eva Hruba and her artistic work and acting performance. It should be emphasized that she not only acted in theatre performances, but also directed them in a very interesting artistic concept. For example, Rolland's novel Peter and Lucie or Manon Lescaut. For example, she excelled in Venclík's play Hašler aneb co ty narodovde at the Karlín Theatre in Prague, where she received an award for directing and acting.
Eva Hrubá is known to always give out everything that is in her heart and thoughts with a deep inner commitment, just like the great chansonnier Hana Hegerová, with whom Eva Hrubá is very similar even without a microphone at her mouth - for the experience, for the expression, the delivery and the reflection of emotions in her face. For the smile and the tears. In a recent programme at Prague's Malostranská beseda, film and theatre scriptwriter, playwright and actor Vlastimil Venclík introduced Eva Hruba to the audience not only as his long-time colleague and a constant on the Czech art scene, but also as an author who is currently finishing her new, and so far last, collection of poems.
The tender nakedness of truth or Let's embrace
The recital of AVE ABURH's Rough Subtleties , compiled from her poetry collection of the same name, illustrated with the author's own paintings, was a powerful artistic experience for the evening's visitors at the Hálk Theatre. For many of them, the evening itself was in the spirit of gratitude to the author, who conceived the evening as a gift for her long-standing friendship and sponsorship, without which her last announced collection could not have been published. For the present time and publishing interest is not very favourable to literature and especially poetry. That is why the vast majority of Czech poets are forced to self-publish or beg for support.
In the case of Eva Hrubá, a grant from the town of Nymburk and the helpful approach of several lovers of her work, led by the mayor of the town Ing. Tomáš Mach at the end of a wonderful evening, they christened the book. Among the main patrons were Mrs. Květoslava Richterová, Eva Kubáňová and Václav Hrubý. The collection presented by these lines is composed of a poetic harvest spanning the years 2018 to 2025. In almost five hundred pages, it is divided into ten chapters or blocks, beginning with In the Sign of Gemini, continuing with The Tender Nakedness of Truth, then, for example, Melted Wax, through The Hospital of Fools to the autobiographical entry Ave Eva. The enthusiasm for the poems is evident in the published Fragments of Rarity - excerpts from letters and reader response.
Their heartfelt reactions speak for all literary analyses and reviews. In this context, it is worth emphasizing the recognition of Eva Hrubá's work by director Venclík, who proposed her as an honorary citizen of Nymburk during the book launch ceremony in recognition and reward for her years of top cultural work promoting her hometown. The collection of poetry is successfully illustrated with a selection of the author's pictorial work, where forty originals of so-called digital paintings correspond with the verses. On the occasion of the book launch, an intimate exhibition of a selection of her work from the last few years was also installed in the foyer of the Hálk Theatre, where Eva has been doing this artistic thing with her touchscreen mobile phone and photographically mapping her surrounding life.
Digital Art
Digital painting is a modern art movement that combines the artist's creativity with the latest technologies. Artists use computers, tablets and special programs, which allows them to realize ideas without depending on traditional painting techniques and materials. This way of working is used not only in illustrations or advertising graphics, but also in liberal arts, which is the case with Eva Hrubá and her artistic sensibility. She paints, so to speak, but without easel and canvas. But let's not play with words. The important thing is that she succeeds in this direction as well. Her dreamy paintings of landscapes and mental processes have their buyers and collectors.
This time the exhibition catalogue was replaced by the magazine of Jičín authors, Tea for Moments of Wellbeing, where we read, among other things, in the interview of the editor-in-chief Václav France with Eva Hruba on this topic: „This style of painting, in which I combine painting with photography in digital form, allows me to transform verses into colours and ideas, so that in a poetic abstract there is always a point, a view of the world, an opinion. I work digitally, the app allows me to sink in colours and use brushes while using my finger on the screen to create the same image as if it were on canvas. Sometimes I combine collages of photographs with painting. The paintings are deliberately untitled and each exhibition is called „Fervently or the Isms of Eva Hrubá“.
The most important thing is not to be seduced by artificial intelligence when creating digital art,“ adds the multi-talented Eva Hrubá at the end of the interview. It remains to add that her next sales exhibition, her fifth in a row, is planned for the second half of this year in the centre of Prague, at the Jaskmanický Gallery, where during the opening, during a discussion with the author, there will be a recitation of her poems from her fifteenth and most recent collection of poetry, Ave Aburh Tender Nakedness of Truth.
Ivan Cerny
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