Ovčáček Eduard 1933–2022

Untitled, 1977

Sign. bottom right E. Ovčáček 77, 83 × 58,5 cm, mount, frame, glass
Painting and graphic work by Eduard Ovčáček belongs to the Lettrist field focused on the phenomenon of writing. Since the beginning of the 1960s, when Ovčáček went through a short period of structural informal graphic character, he discovered countless possibilities of working with pictorial representation of individual graphemes, signs and pictograms, which have since become his central theme. Ovčáček's technique was particularly unique of the painted collage or relief, with which he placed himself in the context of post-war international objective tendencies, in which natural processes, including fire.