Milan Kunc. Opere dal 1979 al 1985. 29. novembre 1990. (Ausstellung). Galleria Verlato, (Mailand). (Text von Helena Kontova).

Gutes Ex.; Einband mit geringf�gigen L�ren. - Titelblatt mit (farb.) Zeichnung, kurzer Widmung und SIGNIERT von Milan Kunc. - Italienisch; englisch. - Milan Kunc (* 1944 in Prag) ist ein Maler (Postmoderne, ironisch-trotziger sozialistischer Realismus; �Peinlicher Realismus�, �Punkpop�, �Ost-Pop� mit Elementen aus Werbung, Fotografie, Stra�nkunst, Comic-Kunst; melodramatische Allegorien; Konfrontation dieser Kunst mit diesem Kunstbetrieb). . Kunc studierte von 1964 bis 1967 an der Kunstakademie Prag. 1969 emigrierte er in die BRD und studierte von 1970 bis 1975 an der Kunstakademie D�sseldorf bei Manfred Sieler, Joseph Beuys und Gerhard Richter. 1979 Gr�ndung der Gruppe Normal (Peter Angermann, Jan Knap, Milan Kunc). Neben seiner Malerei schuf Kunc Skulpturen, Fotoarbeiten und veranstaltete Performances und Stra�naktionen in Wuppertal. Ab 1980 setzte er das k�nstlerische Programm �Internationale Folklore�, eine allgemein verst�liche Kunst f�r das Volk, um. . (wiki) // . Kunc 's insistence in creating "Masterpieces" is both paradoxical and comical during a period in which, as Andy Warhol has said, everyone is famous for fifteen minutes. It's curious that Kunc feels the need to stop time; the artist forces us, sometimes through drastic means, to pause, using the techniques of advertising or Socialist propaganda. In the schizoid, postmodern world, Kunc's point of view would be unjustifiable if it were not undermined by the presence of the very opposite elements as well Kunc's ambivalence is never reduced to compromise - to nonsense or to a passive nihilism. A narrative line survives in his paintings: brief, commonplace stories that become a kind of visual truism and momentary truth attempting to hold our attention for as long as possible. The truism, the banal bit of truth in the painting, however, becomes unimportant; the content and plot would be quite forgettable if it weren 't exasperated visually through the technique of painting, in which painterly skill offers a satiric, distorted perspective. � (Helena Kontova)