Andrej Krivda - Essays
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A globe-trotter, a cosmopolitan, Andrej Krivda is one of the most important contemporary artists in Wettingen, Switzerland. In his first artistic urge - inspired by Cicciolina and rabbits at the height of mating frenzy - he created, and immediately destroyed, his first masterpiece White abstract crap # Pi / 2, Ooh, no, I stepped into it! Deeply regretting this loss he re-created the masterpiece one day later. The painting was later bought for unbelievable price of 50 cents - this happened in the days when the Swiss Franc was still worth something - by his long friend and stalwart supporter of modern art Herr Meierli. His second painting "V2 - The square root of two" was sold for incredible 3,000,000 Krivda's silver dollars. Today's market value is about 99 cents. He is presently working on another masterpiece 'V3 - The square root of three'.
His art is inspired by works of Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. Unwittingly, he has followed the steps of Bridget Riley, Gene Davis and most recently Betts Williams. In contrast to these giants - still "analog" painters - his new exhibition Colour ambients - The rise of digital painting explores the possibilities of "digital" brush and the application of the controlled fractal growth theory. But is it ART? Or art? DESIGN or design? Some art critics have already quipped that his works are NO - THING. The most proper term would probably be post-neanderthal digital neo-nihilism simply because there is NOTHING to see in his paintings.
The fallen ones who sold their souls to the evil for fame, money or power signed the infamous contract with their own blood, that is, their own DNA - a unique signature. In similar fashion - although he has not sold his soul (yet) to the evil - to make his digital paintings more human, Krivda uses paint mixed with his own DNA to sign his creations. This can be a short piece of hair, a tiny drop of blood or - on special requests only- his own body reproduction fluids in his trademark cocktail signature mixture. This not only makes forging of his prints more difficult but literally hands out a piece of the artist himself so that he is forever fused with his paintings and art lovers admiring his works.