First Revelation of Unknown Energy

Kristek’s works in the 1970s were influenced by his long talks with Eberhard Trumler (one of the founders of ethology and Konrad Lorenz’s pupil) about the mechanisms of survival of a species and by his meeting with Salvador Dalí. Trumler gave Kristek part of his collection of skulls and thus evoked his passion for collecting bones and examining them. Such shapes have permeated Kristek’s painting and sculpting from that time. In the painting First Revelation of Unknown Energy, lines repeating the shapes of the bones can be found in the formation of the sandy coastline. A turtle in the bottom right-hand corner conveys the theme of time that has passed and will pass; it expresses the certainty of eternity. A large part of the figure sitting in the armchair has already
sublimated to another dimension. At that very place, a flower appears in the spirit of perpetual intergrowth of forms. On the top of the bonelike formation, a huge boulder is balanced, representing a mass that could start moving at any moment. A man looking on with a child has just caught sight of a revelation of unknown energy that is floating over the horizon.