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Jiri Kolar - Rare Major Poetic Collage From 1976 - Architectural Engraving On Manuscripts
Jiří Kolář (1914-2002) - Exceptional poetic collage, 1976 - Architectural engraving reconstructed from handwritten manuscripts
Description:
This major poetic collage by Jiří Kolář, dated 1976, transforms a historic architectural engraving into a delicately reconstructed image.
The artist superimposes with rare mastery delicate fractures and fragments of torn paper on a background composed entirely of handwritten manuscripts, creating a subtle and profound dialogue between architecture, memory and time.
Through the interplay of torn paper, calligraphic text and shifting perspectives, Kolář deconstructs and recomposes the image of an imposing Gothic cathedral.
The background, saturated with dense, poetic writing, becomes a veritable textual landscape on which fragments of the old engraving come to rest, like so many fragmented and reassembled memories.
This is a refined and rare example of the artist's experimental collage practice, combining the technique of chiasmage (torn and reorganized text fragments) with a sophisticated superimposition of etched elements.
This work condenses all the visual and conceptual poetry that makes Kolář one of the greatest innovators of collage in the 20th century.
Provenance:Collection of Madame Anne de Clippel, Brussels.
Features:
- Artist : Jiří Kolář (1914-2002)
- Date: 1976
- Technique: Original collage - torn papers, old architectural engraving and superimposed handwritten manuscripts (rare experimental technique)
- Collage dimensions: 29.5 cm x 21 cm
- Dimensions with passe-partout : 43 cm x 34 cm
- Condition: Excellent overall condition - collage intact, colors perfectly preserved (visible in photos)
- Presentation : Sold unframed but presented with period passe-partout (ready to be framed according to your taste)
A rare work of great poetic and conceptual finesse, ideal for lovers of modern art, experimental collage and poetic surrealism.
Description:
This major poetic collage by Jiří Kolář, dated 1976, transforms a historic architectural engraving into a delicately reconstructed image.
The artist superimposes with rare mastery delicate fractures and fragments of torn paper on a background composed entirely of handwritten manuscripts, creating a subtle and profound dialogue between architecture, memory and time.
Through the interplay of torn paper, calligraphic text and shifting perspectives, Kolář deconstructs and recomposes the image of an imposing Gothic cathedral.
The background, saturated with dense, poetic writing, becomes a veritable textual landscape on which fragments of the old engraving come to rest, like so many fragmented and reassembled memories.
This is a refined and rare example of the artist's experimental collage practice, combining the technique of chiasmage (torn and reorganized text fragments) with a sophisticated superimposition of etched elements.
This work condenses all the visual and conceptual poetry that makes Kolář one of the greatest innovators of collage in the 20th century.
Provenance:Collection of Madame Anne de Clippel, Brussels.
Features:
- Artist : Jiří Kolář (1914-2002)
- Date: 1976
- Technique: Original collage - torn papers, old architectural engraving and superimposed handwritten manuscripts (rare experimental technique)
- Collage dimensions: 29.5 cm x 21 cm
- Dimensions with passe-partout : 43 cm x 34 cm
- Condition: Excellent overall condition - collage intact, colors perfectly preserved (visible in photos)
- Presentation : Sold unframed but presented with period passe-partout (ready to be framed according to your taste)
A rare work of great poetic and conceptual finesse, ideal for lovers of modern art, experimental collage and poetic surrealism.
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