Artist Krištof Kintera works on a new art project "Light Removes Darkness" which will bring street lamps from around the world to the new Dvorecký bridge in Prague
The artwork will include with dozens of streetlamps from around the world. The aim is to create a light installation – a kind of a botanical garden of streetlights which have illuminated the public space in all corners of the world and which have different or even rare forms. We would like to ask you to help us realize this vision.
The unique light collection; which, like a botanical collection, will show the diversity of the typology of street furniture from across the world. The lamps will be controlled by a program gradually changing the intensity of the illumination of the individual lamps and their groups which will form a cohesive whole with full-grown trees, bushes and other flora, creating a magical, contemplative environment in the middle of a busy city. The garden will include labels marking the country and city of origin of the individual exhibits. Thus, a world rarity – a streetlamp museum – will be born.
Krištof Kintera (1973) is a leading Czech sculptor and visual artist whose work was exhibited across the world and is represented in a number of collections in the Czech Republic and internationally. Kintera presented solo shows at Tinquely Museum in Basel, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and Maramotti Collection in Italy among others. In 2017, he presented his extensive exhibition Nervous Trees at Galerie Rudolfinum which was seen by a record number of 162.000 visitors. His artworks are shown in dozens of galleries across the world. His upcoming exhibitions will be presented in Padua, Regensburg and Berlin.
