La Station is featuring until September 15, a visual artist, Kristof Kintera, born in Prague in 1973. Visitors wander through this long corridor of La Station and discover objects as diverse as shoes, balls, an advertising sign, a lamppost, and many other things, including a shopping bag, elements of a surrealist setting, laid out as if posed, abandoned, or neglected.
The artist has succeeded in his bet to engage the public. Music, light displays, metal barriers, everything here is real, exists, or has existed. The shoes walk on their own, the bag moves, the drum plays a frenzied rhythm. It’s a Fellini film, a decor worthy of this cinema master.
Kristof denounces consumer society, the vain and pointless side of this headlong rush where man no longer controls the mechanisms he has triggered. The artist has harsh words: “I try to analyze the world around me and hold a mirror up to it.”
Hence the title of this exhibition: Analysis Results. This visual artist, presenting his work in Nice for the first time, is he a psychoanalyst? No, he simply wants to change the destiny of everyday objects and, like Little Thumb, he has sown them in La Station, offering each to define a new utility for what has become useless and discarded for the modern consumer: “What makes this object fascinating is that it has its own (often illogical) logic…”. Visitors will discover these unusual and unexpected objects.
Kristof Kintera takes us behind the scenes of these everyday life tools. We are surprised, yet always captivated, following the well-marked path the artist has drawn for us. We become aware of the futility of always possessing more. This visual artist shows us the roadside where modern society has abandoned everything that no longer satisfies immediate desire. It is a damning indictment of our modern world, trapped in a merciless and suicidal spiral of consumption that gradually exhausts our human resources. We then ponder this question: “What will we do when we’ve eaten the last fruit and caught the last fish?”
In his own way, Kristof provides an answer. An exhibition to see before it’s too late.
Thierry Jan
