The NTK Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings and drawings by young Czech painter Argišt Alaverdyan. Argišt Alaverdyan was born in Armenia in 1991 and has lived in the Czech Republic since 1993. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he experienced the studios of Zdeněk Beran, Martin Mainer, and Vladimír Skrepl. He currently teaches in the painting studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. Although the young artist chooses the medium of classical painting for his expression, the themes of his canvases touch on very topical issues related to technological development and its impact on human society and imagination. Alaverdyan depicts robots, digital representations and avatars, various inhuman beings, virtual and physical entities with hybrid body plans, thus moving in the realm of current transhumanist and posthumanist speculations. His detached images, constructed with surprising rationality in both form and content, can be icily beautiful, but at the same time ominous. The question hangs in the air: will the technological era we are entering be a utopia or a dystopia? Datum und Uhrzeit Opening hours Tue—Sun 10:00—18:00