Milan Knižák / To live Differently

white unicorn gallery in Klatovy

The breadth of the work of Milan Knížák, its comprehensiveness combined with authenticity, is phenomenal, and includes everything from paintings, objects, actions, installations, land art, and instruction manuals to music, fashion, design, architectural projects, prose and poetry, essays, photography, collage, all the way to manifestations of entirely new categories of art covering several media at once (within the international context, Milan Knížák has contributed significantly to the formation of intermedia art). “Everything that I do is and always has been nothing more than trying to come close to the totality of life and has had little to do with art as such. (…) I have always, in every area of my activities, achieved a kind of relative maximum. I don't think it was any talent (or skill) for a particular kind of art, but the desire to discover the primal essence, to reach maximality. To change. To scorch.”(Milan Knížák)

The exhibition has been conceived as an “incomplete retrospective” focused primarily on Knížák's visual art. In fact, it is in the nature of his extensive body of work, which transcends traditional categories while remaining internally consistent, that a particular fragment is capable of convincingly representing the entire meaning of his work, which has contributed to the revolutionary changes in artistic practice since the 1960s.