Zonca and Zonca is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Milan Kunc 1979-1989, Wednesday, November 28, 2012.

The exhibition presents ten medium and large scale paintings dating between 1979 and 1989. Milan Kunc reached international notoriety in the 1980s as the highest representative of the so-called "Ost Pop", the Eastern Europe version of Pop Art. At the time, he promoted the return to painting with other components of the Normal Group (Jan Knap and Peter Angermann).

Kunc's idea of painting is similar to that of his most radical American and European contemporaries, such as Keith Haring and Kenny Sharf, the graffiti artists, but also the Italian Transavangard with its idea of freedom in the artistic styles and with its nomadic culture.

His kitsch imagery is both reminiscent of popular culture and the ground of resistance, criticism and subversion. His work claims to be a totalizing image and is composed of heavy lines and decorative elements. In its over two-dimentionality the space is flattened and the work heavily references Cubism and Surrealism, the two most popular trends in Czech art.

The apparent idyll of Kunc's paintings is interrupted by bizarre and incongruous elements: a tank that becomesa brain, the Fuji mountain smiling, some eyebrows transformed into a dove ...

Milan Kunc was born in Prague in 1944, where he still lives. He moved to Germany in 1968 to follow Joseph Beuys' and Gerhard Richter's lessons at the Dusseldorf Academy. In that period he founded the Normal Group with Knap and Angermann and participated in the XI Biennial of Paris. In the 80s he reached international acclaim exhibiting in well known galleries. in Germany, Holland, the United States and Italy. His work is shown in major European museums.

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