Absurd jokes were held by Karel Teige to be the essential food for the century of intelligence. Jan Haubelt (* 1977), a graduate from the VŠUP in Prague, is the author of a number of quirky, discreet anagrams and gags. His scaly neoprene for a pigeon, a wig from his own hair or a red-deer glancing into the adjoining room as a trophy on the wall are works rid of the shackles of logic and causality. The artist disrespects the ordinary and through hyperbole liases with the extraordinary.
