Bad innovation in the name of protection (Gulf Style)
2007 - Sculpture (Sculpture)
105 x 110 x 50 cm
Kristof Kintera
Bad innovation in the name of protection is not a ready-made, but was made entirely by the artist, representing a stroller. Its interior is shielded and designed for babies in the case of conflict. Camouflaged, it resembles a small tank. Is it to protect or to attack? Is this object, full of ambiguity, for harmless babies or child soldiers? Privileged or excluded, this work alludes to survival and inequality faced by the question of life or death. The object materializes the primitive desire of protection induced by fear. How can we look at the world through this stroller? Is the pleasure of seeing, breathing, feeling, still possible? Is it a shield to live, to survive or to go against life?
Kristof Kintera is a major artist of the contemporary Czech scene also with international acclaim. His works refer to doubts expressed in societies under authoritarian or communist regimes who find themselves in economic boom, yet leave behind local concerns. In the artist’s work, a sense of observation, often caustic, helps to establish a critical distance between oneself and the world, by using everyday objects cleverly diverted. Vivid and moving, the works of Kintera evoke primitive feelings of the human condition such as fear, desire for survival, and pleasure. Kristof Kintera was born in 1973 in the Czech Republic. He lives and works in Prague
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