Material, that on the first look seems to be luxury and posh, is only an illusion. It is hiding what for many people has many connotations. However I speak about my work as about transcendental one, because it contains, hidden in its form, the contents connected with such big religion as IKEA is. However the opposite is true! Carl Andre, classic of minimalism, describes his work as atheistic one, because it does not have any transcendental form and any spiritual and intellectual features, as materialistic one, because it assumes nothing else except its own material and it does not want to imitate any other material and as communistic one, because its form is equally and easily reachable for everyone. Someone could easily perceive the objects as minimalistic ones. The objects can be divided to the skeleton and exterior black case. The models are the most common IKEA products that gave dimension to its black caskets. Inside they are hiding their coimage that work as skeleton for each of them. Two of them freely standing and one hanged on a wall. The surfaces of all objects are black and highly reflecting. My work is composed of three objects of rectangular shapes. The seller, whose products and policy divided society to two groups: the absolute fans and the absolute opponents. On one hand, the company, that raised our living standards and “aesthetized” many households. On the other hand, the company that unified our homes so much, that it is not difficult to encounter completely same furniture in several homes at once. Not always easy the process of gaining a strong position on the market helped to develop slightly bombastic history and a lot of tiny mythical stories about company. Yellow-blue Swedish colours, meat balls and unintelligible names, are engraved in heads of people of developed world as easily decodable hieroglyphs. Originally Scandinavian, today international concern IKEA is selling furniture for homes and offices for extraordinary low prices, in legendary flat boxes. The endless number of topics to think about, offered by our lifestyle and surrounding world. Tiny things we use without knowing where they come from and what we declare by using them. The goal of this work is to provoke a different look on objects that are connected with our everyday life. The impact of this kind of phenomenons (in our case IKEA) can be easily generalized. Its products are surrounding, forming and changing the appearance of the environment we live in. IKEA is a phenomenon, as many other similar phenomenons. The Wonderful world with IKEA is a reaction to the omnipresence objects bought in IKEA. The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic, 2013 The objects can be divided to the skeleton and exterior black case. Inside they are hiding their coimage that work as skeleton for each of them. The surfaces of all objects are black and highly reflecting.
The endless number of topics to think about, offered by our lifestyle and surrounding world. The impact of this kind of aspects can be easily generalised. IKEA is a phenomenon, like many other similar phenomenons. The Wonderful World with IKEA is a reaction to the omnipresence objects bought in IKEA.
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