Untitled

70% of the hammer price is allocated to support the non-profit foundation Spolu s odvahou, a member of the Bátor Tábor Family.

Michał Budny is a Polish artist who is based in Warsaw and Prague. His works are characterized by simple materials such as paper, cardboard, chipboard, and adhesive tape. He uses them with great care and precision to create formally simple objects and installations, which are like models of real objects and situations. He simplifies everyday forms of architecture and urbanism as well as fleeting phenomena such as rain or sound waves. His work includes minimalistic molded sculptures as well as two-dimensional assemblages, which often form temporary installations that respond to the specific space in which they are situated. In general, Budny’s work seeks a balanced relationship between simplicity of form and deep intellectual concepts. The untitled work created directly for this auction is a typical example of Budny’s work. It is an object made of cardboard, which has been painted with a slightly silvery, metallic gray paint. It presents a stylized landscape with two poles. The black field at the bottom resembles an arcaded corridor, a place symbolizing shelter, while the bright upper field is a kind of mirror reflection but also an emotional opposite. The two poles are connected by the body of a flowing river.