DAVID KRANTZ – Karmageddon II: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Accepted Human Behaviour
The chimpanzee, the gorilla, the orangutan. And the elephant. In David Krantz’s visual world, we encounter our closest relatives – but also ourselves. Here, the human being does not appear as the centre of creation, but as one species among others, shaped by the same chance, vulnerability, and biological inheritance.
Through stereoscopic 3D animations, graphic prints, and sculpture, Krantz builds installations where space and perception become part of the work. Movement can emerge within a still image. Multiple dimensions can be sensed in a single moment, and we as viewers become active participants.
The motifs are primates that appear as individual figures, each with a title referencing the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. They function not as symbols in a traditional sense, but as parallels—like mirrors.
David Krantz is a Malmö-based artist who has had a fascination with stereoscopic images since childhood, inspired by his old View-Master. Since the late 1980s, he has consistently explored how stereoscopy, animation, and spatiality can interact. Technology is never an end in itself; it is a tool to stretch perception and literally add depth to the image.
Karmageddon II moves between evolution and extinction, between grief and acceptance. It is about what it means to be part of nature—and to live with that awareness.