Krištof Kintera addresses contemporary issues with dark humour. His concerns are the current environment and its relationship with hyper-capitalist systems. Kintera does this with circuit boards, electrical items and other found items to create sculptural works and installations. I saw his thought process with making a space look like a studio space, and how that might link in with Daniel Buren’s text on taking the work from the studio to a gallery space and how that takes the essence away from the work. I think Kintera wanted to transport us away from looking at the work from a gallery space, to looking at the work within his studio.

Kintera’s work reminds me of Lee Bul’s work (who also happened to have been shown at the Ikon a few years prior). It’s related aesthetically but can also be related other than aesthetically because of the dystopian taste and building something thats imagined. Therewere a few pieces that referred to urban landscapes on a miniature scale, almost like we’re watching the scenery from a plane window. His usage of materials is something I want to use for my artworks, and it reminds me of one of my previous works, in which I’ve used electrical wires with plasticine in 2015. I hope to use these materials in my future works.

In this one, it looks like a skyline of a city that’s taken out of the earth; emphasised by the shadow beneath the work.