Dominik Adamec (screenprint)

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Original graphics by Dominik Adamec

Special edition for Telegraph

Screenprint, 72 × 51 cm

100 pcs.

Dominik Adamec (*1995) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, majoring in sculpture in the studios of Jindřich Zeithammel and Tomáš Hlavina. He currently lives and works in Berlin. Perhaps because Adamec comes from a Christian family, his work is based on early medieval sacred architecture, sculpture and elements of religious liturgy. Another inspiration for him is biology, in which he looks for anomalies in the origin of organisms and their developmental modifications.

The serigraphy called Ambrozia refers to the silent killer - sugar, which is depicted here in the form of a bred sugar beet. Ambrosia as the drink and food of the gods giving youth, beauty and immortality. Immortality then becomes a kind of artificial ingredient in human life. Sugar has always functioned as a human pleasure mould, after which there is a satisfaction that seems to be no death. The inscription DIE STERBLICHKEIT ANSTATT DIE EWIGKEIT, AMBROZIA GLUTAMAN - mortality instead of eternity - is meant to remind us that, for all the "sugar" of everyday life, one should not forget that one day one will leave this world.

Podcast with Dominik Adamec.