Big Leap Forward Sculpture

Sadofsky & Trantina Dan Trantina and Peter Sadofsky started to work together on collective projects in 2014. Like Gilbert and George, they co-author their pieces and work simultaneously together not only in sculpture, but even on canvases. Their first collective piece was a monumental sculpture for the European Parliament in Brussels, which was unveiled by the EU Commissioner for Culture Tibor Navracsics on 26 May 2015. The sculpture was then Exhibited by Museum Kampa in Prague and its founder and philanthropist Meda Mladek provided her estate on St. Thomas island for the artists as a winter residence. On their way to St. Thomas, the artists visited San Juan which turned out to be a key inspiration for their new painting series, created partially there and in their St. Thomas residence specifically for the DL Art Gallery. The unique amount of art in the visually striking streets of San Juan and the Caribbean colourful atmosphere gave them the initial direction for their works in the beginning of 2016. In San Juan they have also founded their new collective called GesamteEntarteteKunstWerke (Completely Degenerate Art Factory), named after an exhibition of modern art in Munich 1937, that was supposed to prove the works of the contemporary artists as degenerate. Sadofsky and Trantina are presently living and working in Los Angeles and Prague.