Jiri Kolar
dal 28/6/2011 al 2/8/2011
Segnalato da
28/6/2011
Jiri Kolar
Reznichenko Collection, Prague
Master of Collage. The artist worked with art reproductions in a singular manner, he crumpled and glued them in a playful way, sometimes erasing selected parts of well known paintings to show the viewer a new form of reality.
Reznichenko Collection is pleased to present an exhibition of works on paper by the Czech artist Jiří Kolář. Visitors will have the opportunity to see a selection of collages by one of the most prominent artists of the latter half of the 20th century.
Kolar launched his artistic career as autodidact, translator and poet. Well-known for his poetry based on visualized text, Kolář was an active intellectual, member of art groups Group 42, UB and Křižovatka (Crossroad) and was among the signatories of Charta 77.
His first exhibitions displaying collages were held in the late 1930s. From the ’50s Kolář focused on artworks in which he experimented with various forms of collage techniques that he invented such as confrontages, chiasmages, rollage, effaçage and crumplage.
One of his favourite collage methods is called rollage: cut-out stripes from magazines and different images were fixed and combined on the support next to each other. Kolář also produced new and vibrant colors in his collages by gluing on printed papers in an astonishing minimal process. The artist worked with art reproductions in a singular manner, he crumpled and glued them in a playful way, sometimes erasing selected parts of well known paintings to show the viewer a new form of reality.
Not only the brilliant artist invented new techniques and helped to develop new methods of collage but through his work he raised the viewer's level of consciousness. His distinctive style ingeniously penetrates the multiple levels of human existence.
Kolář was the great master of collage, the first and only artist who devoted his entire artistic carreer to this specific medium. With his minimal and sharpened approach he investigated the very essence of poetry for a new possible artistic reality.
The show “Jiří Kolář - Master of Collage” opens on June 29 2011 and closes on August 3 2011.
A limited edition catalogue will be released.
Jiří Kolář (1914, Protivín - 2002, Prague).
Kolář’s work has been exhibited at Guggenheim New York, MAM Miami, Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, Narodni Galerie in Prague, ICA London, Kunstmuseum in Düsseldorf, PAC Milan, Documenta in Kassel, and many renowned international galleries.
Reznichenko Collection
Tynska ulicka, 10 - Prague
Hours: 16-20