Richard Fajnor

The main focus of Richard Fajnor’s work includes topics such as the role of an artist in society, the analysis of institutional operations or an artist’s self-reflexion of his/her individuality. It is not easy to categorize this artist who is knowledgeable and draws from art lessons from the 1960s. His work encompasses the entire spectrum of media and processes – from land art realizations through live performances and installations, all the way to work with video and multimedia. Although his work is an integral part of the Czechoslovakian fine art scene from the beginning of the 1990s, it is not distinguished by large quantity. Fajnor belongs among the type of artists who create from the need to deal with specific topics, or from the necessity to react to their own life situations and turning points. Instead of continuity, his work shows more cyclicity, discovery and burrowing, as well as discreet presence within artistic production, which he from time to time makes visible by a thematically and formally aimed act.