Krištof Kintera | We Don't Know How It Works

The drawing of high voltage with ease and humor of Krištof Kintera's own work points out that we do not really understand most of the systems, worlds and rules in which we are moving. Perhaps it will be necessary to start building human knowledge on slightly different foundations. Limited edition: 100pcs, numbered, signed by the author.

Print Technique:	giclée, archive 12 -color pigment print
Paper:	100% cotton paper Hahnemühle Photo RAG 308G
Frame print size:	104 × 74 cm (1: 1 to the original)
Frame:	Wooden with UV plexiglass in the museum standard

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Krištof Kintera (*1973) is an internationally established Czech sculptor and visual artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studios of Milan Knížák, Michael Bielický, Aleš Veselý and Jiří Lindovský. Subsequently, he joined the Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. He completed scholarships at Ohio State University in the US and Künstlerhaus Villa Waldbert in Feldafing, Germany. He regularly exhibits in renowned European institutions (for example in Kunsthalle Rotterdam, Tinguely Museum Basel, Palais de Tokyo in Paris and others), presented extensive independent exhibitions in the Rudolfinum Gallery, the Prague City Gallery or the National Gallery.

As part of Krištof Kintera's work, which is mainly devoted to monumental realizations in gallery and public space, the drawing has its unique place. It allows a quick response, it is a diary recording everyday ideas, thoughts and visions. In a simple form with elements of humor and irony comments on the world around us, its funny and alarming opposites. High voltage drawing with "We Don't Know How It Works" and a gentle figurative motif can relate to a number of specific situations. With the ease of Kinter, he points out that we do not really understand most of the systems, worlds and rules in which we move. We are on the way of scientific knowledge about the human body, nature and the universe, but also about technology and artificial intelligence, which seems to be more complicated and more difficult to grasp. Perhaps it will be necessary to start building human knowledge on slightly different foundations.

Karina Kottová, curator

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Krištof Kintera for 100pcs

These drawings are created by a very specific technique. I call it a jet drawing or a high voltage drawing. The machine is written in Cyrillic Lichtenberg. Lichtenberg was a Baroque German scientist and thinker. He was the first to display these small lightning, which was actually the very first display of electric current or voltage. That's why this is called Lichtenberg's patterns. But the roots of trees and plants also look like form. Everything actually leads to some similar morphology, and it is a bewitching, fascinating.

This is a bit of a specific drawing, because I usually withdraw in my drawing to some like that of the face and psyche and psychology associated with it. I don't address the figure as such. And just recently, I drew something completely basal as a human depiction. And because I like to accompany my things with a text where an interesting intense link between the message and the message and the picture information is created. Such a tension.

On this drawing is the text “We Don’t Know How It Works”, and I come across that we know a lot as people/civilization, but we don't know a lot either. And because the patterns remind, among other things, the brain synapse, so there are a lot of things. We also know a little about the brain.

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