Adrian Altman↓

About the work

The Court Jesters at the Kings of Junk

After a period of flirting with different approaches, Adrian Altman decided to return to the painting tradition in a rather crooked way. He uses cotton canvas stretched on a wooden blind frame, oil paints, sprays, acrylic gesso, turpentine and linseed oil in an admittedly materialistic sense. Holding a brush instead of a mobile phone. He resigned the obsession and the desire to stubbornly get to the root of something this time. He does not discover anything new; it is rather a deliberately insignificant sigh. He does not try to meet the zealous demand for nonconformity. He does not want a monopoly on visibility, nor does he want to establish a recognizable brand via commodification of himself. Not only the Painting 3 studio, but also the institution of the Academy of Arts in Prague and the spectacle of diploma theses create a framework that determined Altman’s work itself.