Kalmus na Pohode  ^SK

For several years now, visual artist Peter Kalmus has been creating and presenting a new mobile object at Pohoda. This year is no exception. He approaches this with full awareness that the festival is a celebration, a moment of joy, and so also his objects are playful. But it would not be Kalmus if his objects were not also provocative with their unconventionality and layered with hidden messages. Kalmus, the artist, is known for collecting things. His creations often emerge from old, discarded materials. In a sense, he is an ecologist, giving objects a second life, one with added value. In a world driven by consumption, he does not escalate the curve of production growth but rather repurposes what has already been made and seemingly consumed. Just as his lifestyle is ascetic, so is his art. Perhaps this is exactly what unnerves those who always seek for the new, the shiny, the expensive, the things no one else has—even at the cost of deceit and theft, even at the cost of impoverishment of the entire nation…

Boris Kršňák, friend and court curator of Peter Kalmus

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