Kryštof Strejc
Super Cure No 2
Artist
Kryštof Strejc
(1994, Domažlice), Czech
Original Title
Super Cure No 2
Date2019
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions180 × 180 cm
Classificationspaintings
Credit LineKunsthalle Praha
DescriptionKryštof Strejc is a member of the post-internet generation of artists. He draws inspiration from the complicated contemporary social reality of late capitalism as it grapples with various social, ecological, political, and cultural questions. His works thus represent a personal reflection on the outside world, but also on artistic practice and his own artistic identity. His earlier assemblage works, incorporating fragments of clothing, pushed the formal boundaries of the hanging painting. In his more recent work, Strejc returns to narrational, figurative painting based on layered metaphors and a grotesque irony inscribed in numerous playful details and pop cultural references. Characteristic of these often-sizeable canvases is a contrast of expressive colors with delicate, planar draftsmanship and a return to painterly intuition and spontaneity.
This painting is part of Strejc’s graduate project, titled Super Cure (2019), in which he explored the question of artwashing, a strategic practice employed by galleries, artists, art dealers and collectors, and real estate developers and agents. The dynamic, figurative scene depicted by Strejc alludes to shamanic rituals and communicates the artist’s frustration as well as his role as an onlooker directly affected by certain problems, who ironically flirts with the idea of discovering a cure for a situation which most probably does not have a realistic solution.
Kryštof Strejc (*1994, Domažlice) studied new media art under Vladimír Merta in the Faculty of Design and Art at the University of Western Bohemia in Pilsen. He then went on to study painting in Jiří Černický’s studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague between 2016 and 2019. In 2018 and 2019, he was named among the finalists of the Critics’ Prize for Young Painting. Strejc’s work is regularly displayed at exhibitions focused on the upcoming generation of Czech artists.
This painting is part of Strejc’s graduate project, titled Super Cure (2019), in which he explored the question of artwashing, a strategic practice employed by galleries, artists, art dealers and collectors, and real estate developers and agents. The dynamic, figurative scene depicted by Strejc alludes to shamanic rituals and communicates the artist’s frustration as well as his role as an onlooker directly affected by certain problems, who ironically flirts with the idea of discovering a cure for a situation which most probably does not have a realistic solution.
Kryštof Strejc (*1994, Domažlice) studied new media art under Vladimír Merta in the Faculty of Design and Art at the University of Western Bohemia in Pilsen. He then went on to study painting in Jiří Černický’s studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague between 2016 and 2019. In 2018 and 2019, he was named among the finalists of the Critics’ Prize for Young Painting. Strejc’s work is regularly displayed at exhibitions focused on the upcoming generation of Czech artists.
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