Ovčáček Eduard 1933–2022
Tools I, 1988
double-sided, frottage and burnt collage,
paper, mount, frame, glass, in cut-out
40,5 × 53,5 cm, signed. UD E. Ovčáček 88,
reverse in woodcut 39 × 52,5 cm,
signed. UD E. Ovčáček 1988
Painting and graphic work of Eduard Ovčáček
belongs to the area of Lettrist art focused on
on the phenomenon of writing. Since the beginning of the sixties
1960s, when Ovčáček went through a short period of
of structural prints of informal character,
he discovered the myriad possibilities of working with pictorial
representation of individual graphemes, characters
and pictograms, which have since become his
central theme. Especially unique was
Ovčáček's technique of burnt collage
or relief, with which he placed himself in the context of
of post-war international objective
tendencies, in which natural
processes, including fire.
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starting price
16 000 CZK
€ 656
hammer price
16 000 CZK