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A box can isolate, protect, incarcerate, hide, show etc. Are we entering or stepping out of something when getting inside a box?<\/p>\n
Petr Kr\u00e1tk\u00fd\u2019s installation uses even the gallery space, the white cube as a box. We can recognize the black frames of the exhibited pictures in the gallery\u2019s front windows and their black, metallic frames. The prefabricated picture frames (obviously IKEA products) fit well to the ready-madeness of the space. Kr\u00e1tk\u00fd\u2019s gesture transform them to being parts of the artwork.<\/p>\n
He works with ready-made materials in other ways\u00a0as well. Neither the IKEA frames, nor the gallery space or the cardboard boxes (which were used us industrial wrapper) were made by the creator, at least in the material way. What\u2019s more, even the pictures are discoursive in the same sense, since their materials are the commercial results of the mass production: they\u2019re reproductions of art books and exhibition catalogues.<\/p>\n
The reason why Petr Kr\u00e1tk\u00fd\u2019s installation is unique\u00a0is that he invites the viewer to reconsider nearly all\u00a0of the most important questions of art theory. Kr\u00e1tk\u00fd enters the original paintings with the same curiosity that drove Theo van Doesburg to tilt Mondrian\u2019s world 45 degrees in his Counter-Compositions. He expropriates the artwork, decomposes its elements and rearranges them in his own way. Not necessarily\u00a0as a statement, rather as a question, an experiment, an offer.<\/p>\n
He reflects on the matter of authorship, he questions the issue of originality, ultimately he investigates the substance of the artwork. He analyzes how indispensable parts of a picture are such components as colour, shape or structure. Does the essence of a picture lie in one of these components or in the cooperation of them? Or maybe in something else? Meanwhile he also brings up the relation between production and reproduction and raises the issue of interaction with the viewers.<\/p>\n
His expression is pure, clear and disarmingly moderate. Kr\u00e1tk\u00fd\u2019s installation is an elegant summary\u00a0of many conceptual discourses.<\/p>\n
Milo\u0161 Toth<\/p>\n
Curator: Martin Prudil<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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