Jirí Kovanda

Untitled (equilibrium) . 2007

+ Murray Guy


The sculptures and performances of Jirí Kovanda (b. 1953) often animate familiar consumer objects (sugar cubes, ketchup bottles, flashlights, a bicycle.) Kovanda combines or uses objects "inappropriately" — for example suspending a bag of marshmallows and a hammer on either side of a long piece of twine, or inserting wooden wedges into the cracks between old paving stones. Making them speak in strange ways, his actions and interventions often endow objects with an uncanny eroticism.
Murray Guy