David Krut Projects is pleased to present Notes in Flight, a solo exhibition of new, unique works on paper and paintings. 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.
Smog For Lovers, 2025
Oil based monotype with Kitakata chine colle and handwork
26.7 cm x 33 cm
SOLD
Send a Message Moon, 2025
Oil based monotype with Kitakata chine colle and handwork
26.7 cm x 33 cm
R 5 500.00 VAT incl. Framed
Fire on The Carpet/Prelude for Jack, 2025
Oil based monotype with Kitakata chine colle and handwork
26.7 cm x 33 cm
SOLD
“On my way in every morning, I became more and more interested in the shape of the smog hanging over the city. I became mesmerised by how the smog diffused light, held colour and shape as a solid yet ephemeral form. This inspired my monotypes – emulating the shape and intricacies of the smog.”
Where Did You Go Tulip, 2025
Oil based monotype with Kitakata chine colle and handwork
26.7 cm x 33 cm
SOLD
Thinking About Songs For Us, 2025
Oil based monotype with Kitakata chine colle and handwork
26.7 cm x 33 cm
R 5 500.00 VAT incl. Framed
“The moments that inspire me most are held and rooted by the city of Johannesburg. The city almost always informs my work in some way or another. I am less concerned with personal moments of affectation being evident to the viewer. For me, it is about the gestural and emotive nature of my art practice holding these affective nodes in a temporal, abstracted manner. “
Aubergine Prediction II, 2025
Oil on canvas
92 cm x 121.5 cm
R 34 500.00 VAT incl. unframed
Ever So, 2025
Oil on canvas
61 cm x 50.5cm
SOLD
Yellow Green Forecast, 2025
Oil on canvas
61 cm x 50.5cm
R 15 000.00 VAT incl. unframed
Look At the Entry, Look At the Passage, 2025
Oil based monotype
74 cm X 106 CM
R 18 500.00 VAT incl. unframed
“The art of abstraction offers multiple points of entry: each being unique to the viewer. I can only hope that what the viewer understands at these points of entry is enriching.”
How Long Do You Think We Can Be Here For, 2025
Oil based monotype with Kitakata chine colle and handwork
64.4 cm x 54 cm
R 11 000.00 VAT incl. Framed
“My work is decisively abstract with gesture as a prominent characteristic, often translating into an image with a landscape lurking somewhere in the composition.
I work with colour intuitively; sometimes the work is held within a loud colour palette and at other times, it is much quieter.”
Aubergine Prediction I, 2025
Oil on canvas
76 cm x 37.5 cm
R 14 000.00 VAT incl. unframed
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.
Olivia Pintér (b. 2000) is a Johannesburg based artist. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from The University of the Witwatersrand in 2023. Pintér’s practice centres process based methodologies that interrogate the affective agencies of abstract painting. She is concerned with painting-in-action. Pintér’s practice explores how a painting may communicate materially, beyond representation. Relationships between image and text are also central to her writing and painting practice, with focus on how interventions between these two modalities may marry, extend, and limit each other.
Pintér first connected with David Krut Projects in 2024 when she came into to the bookstore to redeem a voucher that she had received for her 4th year research paper, making her one of two students to receive the award for Best Fine Arts Written Paper. While browsing the books, she and David began to discuss abstraction and painting, a conversation which culminated in Pintér showing David her work. Later on, David and our director Ame went to visit her studio and later invited her to come into our workshop for a short residency. She accepted the invitation in 2025, where she experimented with creating oil-based monotypes, collaborating with David Krut Workshop printer Roxy Kaczmarek.
Explore her work on our website.
The David Krut Workshop (DKW) had the pleasure of welcoming abstract Painter Olivia Pintér to our print studio. Pintér worked with collaborator Roxy Kaczmarek on a series of monotypes. This painterly printmaking process has the artist painting onto a piece of plexi–plastic. A sheet of paper is then pressed onto the surface of the painting….
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