Bartusz Juraj *1933, Bočkay Milan *1946, Bočkayová Klára *1948, Ďurček Ľubomír *1948, Fila Rudolf

Symposion No. III/76, 26 pcs

album of graphic sheets, drawings and prints, 26 pcs, 49,9 × 49,9 cm, box, Manifest-Stano Filko, Miloš Laky, Ján Zavarský: White space in white space 1973-74, 24 x 17.8 cm; Manifest: S. Filko, M. Laky, J. Zavarský, 1974-75, canvas cover
Symposion No. III/76 is part of the collection. Slovak National Gallery, SNG, under inventory no. G 13974/1 "Symposion III, 1976, in memoriam Miloš Laky In the 1970s, the production of graphic editions, albums, and other works of art, graphic editions, graphic albums and postcards (mail art) became the norm in the then Czechoslovakia one of the important forms of sharing and distribution of unofficial, mainly conceptually oriented art, not only to a close circle of friends, but to a wider audience. He was active in Slovakia since the 1960s a wide range of artists who, through collective performative events, joint happenings, meetings in the privacy of apartments, broke out of the traditional gallery environment, but also from pervasive political surveillance and censorship and created their own parallel alternative platform for meeting and sharing unofficial art. In this context, the offered album of prints, drawings and prints entitled Symposion III from 1976. The album built on previous editions, initiated by Miloš Laky, a prominent Slovak conceptual artist, in 1974 as a continuation of the samizdat prints entitled Time I and Time II, published in 1973 by a group of artists, which, like Symposion I of 1974, took the form of posters manifesting and documenting artistic interventions and installations, which were distributed as alternative form of exhibition. Symposion II - Frozen Information from 1975 was already prepared as an album with artworks carrying a message for the future, but due to increased censorship pressure, the album was not published, but stored and buried in the forests of the Little Carpathians. Symposion III - In memoriam Miloš Laky was published as a tribute to the author on the occasion of the first anniversary of his death and presented on 4 September 1976. at a private meeting called Deposit, organized by Dezider Tóth, a prominent Slovak conceptual artist and one of the authors of the album. The album the key artists of the Slovak alternative art scene contributed their works and the theorist Tomáš Štrauss supplemented the album with a biography and description of the work of Miloš Laky. The album includes a number of graphic sheets, monotypes, designs and drawings, as well as a unique work Biely prostor v bielom prostore umělců. - We advocate a free "pure sensibility", which is absolute and is the only possibility of "pure sensual art". - We distance ourselves from all forms of explanation of pure sensibility, because "pure sensibility is in its pure activity is absolute. Stano Filko, Miloš Laky and Ján Zavarský's 1973-1979. The now iconic complex work, consisting of a number of individual works and an artistic manifesto, was in 1974 secretly exhibited in the Brno House of Art for one night. White space in bielom Space represents a radically new conception of the artwork, presented as a form of pure emotion and transcendence articulated in space. The white colour plays a key role in the work as a means of new sensibility, a dematerialized and immaterial reality. The work is fundamentally in the history of art as a legendary project, bringing new artistic approaches in response to the totalitarian ideology of the time. S. FILKO - M. LAKY - J. ZAVARSKÝ - 1974-1975 together