Jiří Pitrmuc

The potential of slapstick comedy has always consisted of the carefree innocence possessed by its actors in revealing the cruel irony of human life. As if our being did not weigh anything, and we could blow it away at any time like a piece of feather.

We can feel a similar state of weightlessness from the projects of Jiří Pitrmuc, who, in his current exhibition, in addition to slapstick comedies, reveals another inspiration – the world of a specific logic of the artful language of child drawings. The artist recycles the topic of silent films stuck in the roots of modern culture, to divest this visual language full of joy and carefreeness, linked with a number of typical artefacts, of the tragedy of human presence, and he introduces it in his paintings and installations as a fresh game room of archetypes of the avant-garde.
Viktor Čech (extract)