New Olivia Pintér exhibition at David Krut
David Krut Projects is pleased to present Notes in Flight, a solo exhibition of new, unique works on paper and paintings by Olivia Pintér.
Notes in Flight explores how Pintér captures, as datapoints, affective gestures translating them into visual marks that carry emotional resonance. These works bring the often-unseen presence of the artist into focus, holding fleeting gestures, tactile traces, and memory within each image. They invite viewers into an intimate dialogue between hand, material, and movement.
The layered works on paper arise from the collaboration with Roxy Kaczmarek,
long term collaborator at the David Krut Workshop in Maboneng, Johannesburg. From Pintér’s daily commute to the workshop, the sensory and linguistic textures of Johannesburg — its smog, dust, light, and layered urban landscape — subtly filter into her paintings, informing their visual and emotional language.
In these works, she explores how to articulate sensations that are felt but not fully understood. Abstract painting becomes a way to “language” affective gestures: subtle movements or encounters that linger. These impulses — whether sparked by colour, mood, or texture — accumulate into layered compositions, each work holding multiple moments and memories.
Materiality is equally vital to Pintér’s practice. She treats paint and surface as repositories of information, layering or obscuring these traces so that meaning emerges through abstraction.
Notes in Flight reveals how Pintér channels the abstract shapes of her impulses into the making process — allowing them to guide, resist, and inform each other. Her work does not offer a narrative, but a sensory and emotional entry point into her ongoing conversation with gesture, place, and material.
Exhibition opens: 30 August to 04 October 2025
David Krut Arts, The Blue House, 151 Jan Smuts Avenue Parkwood