Panini Pressed (The Life and Death of Deny Braun)
Karpuchina Gallery•Sep 19, 2024 — Oct 31, 2024
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“Deny Braun is a time traveler. He has traveled hundreds of millions of years into our age and is about to leave it to face the distant future. He is well equipped to do so. He traces a brief episode in human culture as a short episode in the planet’s history, during which one species achieved hegemonic status and began to threaten itself. It cannot threaten Deny Braun. He is a cockroach, and so he knows full well the mixture of disgust and admiration that this species has for him while at the same time realizing that this disdain paradoxically stems from the same capacity for adaptation that the human species itself has always excelled so much at.Denis Baštuga, a young Czech painter of Slovak origin, chronicles Braun’s long presence on Earth. He collects the fragments of available information and tries to piece together at least a partial picture of the fate of the mythical creature, which weaved its way between the heavy legs of the dinosaurs, coped unscathed wit…
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Panini Pressed (The Life and Death of Deny Braun)
Karpuchina Gallery•Sep 19, 2024 — Oct 31, 2024
Press Release
“Deny Braun is a time traveler. He has traveled hundreds of millions of years into our age and is about to leave it to face the distant future. He is well equipped to do so. He traces a brief episode in human culture as a short episode in the planet’s history, during which one species achieved hegemonic status and began to threaten itself. It cannot threaten Deny Braun. He is a cockroach, and so he knows full well the mixture of disgust and admiration that this species has for him while at the same time realizing that this disdain paradoxically stems from the same capacity for adaptation that the human species itself has always excelled so much at.Denis Baštuga, a young Czech painter of Slovak origin, chronicles Braun’s long presence on Earth. He collects the fragments of available information and tries to piece together at least a partial picture of the fate of the mythical creature, which weaved its way between the heavy legs of the dinosaurs, coped unscathed wit…
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