Announcement

On January 11th the first digital exhibition
on De Museumserver has been opened:

        url = http://www.museumserver.nl/expositie/

Milan Kunc (Czechoslovakia, 1944) achieved worldwide recognition in
the '80s as the Eastern European representative of American pop art.
With his colorful, surrealistically tinted paintings he criticized
both the Soviet doctrine behind the iron curtain as well as Western
consumerism. Kunc held up a mirror to his contemporaries, which was
characterized by irony and a suspicion of the "achievements" of
the 20th century. The communist icons in his paintings were
represented as absurdly as those of capitalism.

As the ideological contrasts between East and West were extinguished,
the political themes in Milan Kunc's work shifted toward the
background.
The erotic, another theme that has run through Kunc's work as a
leitmotif from the very beginning, has therefore moved distinctly
to the fore. Delightful rolling hills inhabited by garden gnomes,
roguish pigs, strolling hamburgers and winged dollar bills change
seamlessly into the delightful breasts and buttocks of voluptuous
young ladies, a ripe banana on a plate of fruit is effortlessly
transformed into a proud male member.

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The Museumserver is the platform for Dutch museums on the Net.
Next to homepages there are links to museums on the web worldwide,
a discussiongroup, experiments with digital art and exhibitions.

http://www.museumserver.nl/

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