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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.

Agustina Battezzati, Whitehot Magazine

“Krochmalny’s works... resonate as a visual form of thought and attention.”

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,

SK

© 2025 by Syd Krochmalny

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