Kolář Jiří 1914–2002

Singing clog

Singing clog collaged object, 12 × 30,5 × 13,5 cm
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Collection Helga and Walther Lauffs - American and European Art of the Sixties and Seventies sixties and seventies, 1983-84, p. 233, no. 203. Vystaveno: Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Helga and Walther Lauffs Collection. Walther Lauffs. Provenance: původně Galerie Edition R. Johanna Ricard, Nuremberg, 1972. Draženo: Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 1 July 2009, lot 71. Jiří Kolář has been slowly coming to his most important practices since the 1940s. years. From the beginning he applied the method of the diary. He collected motifs that and then used them when the idea matured. However, most of his own techniques ...was between the late '50s and the second half of the '60s. Their predecessors were confrontation, reportage and found collage, in which he arranged reproductions cut from magazines according to certain relationships and with them related rules. He once said that the word had lost its meaning for him at a certain period ...and that it fell apart because it was misused. He created what he called evidential poetry, which was any poetry that wasn't expressed in words. He was also always concerned with the intermingling of different eras of art history. For example, he linked motifs from Baroque paintings with paintings by the great masters of the 20th century. The principles he developed in his written poetry were also applied in his visual expression. In doing so, he did not just rely on strict order, but naturally applied poetic imagination and playfulness. It must be stressed that he was able to his discoveries of this period and his inexhaustible inventiveness, he became for a long time one of the most influential figures in this country and in Europe for a longer period of time. He maintained contacts with many other artists from abroad and is represented in a number of public and private collections in this country, France, Germany, Italy, the United United States, Finland, Poland, Slovakia... the multiple meanings and multiplicities of reality and the desire to make art from anything are the inner premises of Jiří Kolář's development.