vintage collection

 

 

Lumir Hladik – Innocent paper, innocent people!

“I placed, with the help of my friends, a one-meter-wide sheet of clean, white paper across a sidewalk.
Pedestrians had the choice to go around it, to jump over it, or to step on it.”

Action art
Location: Cesky Brod, Czech republic
Year: 1976
Collection of the artist

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Jiří Kovanda – «Waiting for someone to call me…»

Action art
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Year: 1976, November 18
Black & white photograph, 29,7 x 21,3 cm
Vintage print 1976 – 1/3
Courtesy Lumir Hladik Art Collection, Toronto

 

Jiří Kovanda, (*1953) appeared on the art scene along with the second generation of Czech “action art” in the late 1970s. Kovanda is a truly unique phenomenon, a pioneer and innovator, known for his minimal poetic interventions. From day one, Kovanda preferred to digress from grand matters. He focused on the peripheral, the subtle, and imperceptible in order to offer grand insights for those who were “ready”. Jiří Kovanda’s work has been praised and exhibited in more then 90 solo shows and hundreds of group shows worldwide: selected examples – Dokumenta, Germany / Tate Modern, London, UK / Museo Nacional, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain / Biennale Sao Paulo, Brazil /Secession gallery, Vienna, Austria / Wallspace Gallery, New York, USA / GB agency, Paris, France / SVIT Gallery, Prague…

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