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ART POSTCAPITALIST
Postcapitalist Art is a series of paintings that captures the aesthetics of a world where capital no longer organizes meaning as it once did—but still leaves its mark. Scenes of suspended accumulation—storage units, empty fairs, flooded vitrines—are juxtaposed with terse phrases that echo slogans, institutional language, or fragmented mantras.
Krochmalny doesn’t simply represent the circulation of art; he stages it. Each painting becomes a critical capsule where the visible and the latent collide. The aura survives, but crated. Beauty persists, but displaced. Value hovers, but is no longer absolute.
This project offers neither closure nor utopia. It lingers in the tension: between what the system tries to archive and what reemerges as image; between what is bought and what cannot be priced.
Painted between New York and Buenos Aires, these works do not illustrate postcapitalism—they embody it. Because even amid exhaustion, art insists.
EXHIBITIONS
Collectors Buy The Aura
The Opening Gallery, NYC, 2023.
Useless Landscapes
Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood Gallery, Moorestown, NJ, 2021-2022.
Homage and Oblivion.
Noyes Museum, Stockton University, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 2020-2021.
Useless Landscapes
Gallery 50 inc, New Jersey, 2017.
Press &
Essays
Cognitive Dissonance and Fictionalized Ethnographies: Syd Krochmalny’s Paintings and Sculptures at The Opening Gallery.
A conversation between Warren Neidich, Reinaldo Laddaga and Vivi Tellas with the participation of Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), ARTFUSE, 2024.
Collectors Buy the Aura: Syd Krochmalny’s works at The Opening Gallery
By AGUSTINA BATTEZZATI. Whitehot Magazine, December 13, 2023.
Syd Krochmalny: Not a Stupid Painting
By Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Cultbytes, 2024.
Homage and Oblivion
By Roberto Jacoby, 2017
Useless Landscapes
Mario Scorzelli,2017.
Yellow Stakhanov Will Hit Florida Keys
By Claudio Iglesias,
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