Kryštof Strejc
Elelá bimba (Table-Image-Drawing)
Artist
Kryštof Strejc
(1994, Domažlice), Czech
Original Title
Elelá bimba (Table-Image-Drawing)
Date2018
Mediummixed media
Dimensions80 × 60 × 3 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.
The is piece titled Elelá Bimba (2017) is at once a table, a painting, and a drawing, evidencing a shift in the understanding of the hanging painting from rigid, clearly defined medium toward its broader conceptualization as expanded painting. Strejc used the board of a simple camping table as a surface for painting and engraving. The object was part of the exhibition Global Satan Social Camping (Berlínskej model, Prague, 2018) where he explored the permeable boundary between functional objects and artistic artefacts, seeking to draw attention to the possibilities of the further use of objects and materials which have lost their original utilitarian value.
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.
The is piece titled Elelá Bimba (2017) is at once a table, a painting, and a drawing, evidencing a shift in the understanding of the hanging painting from rigid, clearly defined medium toward its broader conceptualization as expanded painting. Strejc used the board of a simple camping table as a surface for painting and engraving. The object was part of the exhibition Global Satan Social Camping (Berlínskej model, Prague, 2018) where he explored the permeable boundary between functional objects and artistic artefacts, seeking to draw attention to the possibilities of the further use of objects and materials which have lost their original utilitarian value.
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.
