Antal Lakner’s “passive work tools” scrutinize and criticize a contemporary phenomenon: the employees of our times – not the ’workers’ and ’farmers’ from the days of yesteryear – working in the service sector, who sit all day in offices (62% of people employed in Hungary), do not have to do any real physical activity or even move much at all. To compensate for this inactivity they have little choice but to rely on the machines inside fitness centres to stay in shape. But the work done and muscle energy released in these facilities is completely wasted, and the only result of the toil is an attractive muscle, shapely buttocks, (and hopefully general well-being and good health as well). Reflecting on this phenomenon, the artist a) tries to return humanity to the world of real and useful work and production; b) protects humanity from the perils of labour by way of inventing copycat machinery based on real tools. The Wallmaster is useful in imitating the movement used to do real wall painting, but with no downsides: users face no danger of soiling their clothes, in fact no use of actual paint is required, therefore the whole process becomes cheaper and more simple. This exercise is great for developing muscles in the upper arm, as well as those of the back, legs, and the abdomen. K.Sz.