Today via ebay, surprisingly enough, I discovered this Jiri Kolar series entitled "Hasek's Prague."
I can only assume this is a reference to Jaroslev Hasek, writer of the incomplete Good Soldier Svejk. Perhaps the works were an homage to Hasek's early use of verbal collage (visual collage being Kolar's medium of choice). In any event, these collages are amazingly minimal for Kolar, and are also full of round shapes, instead of the flayed lines he is probably best known for.
To me, they look like inverted Gordon Matta-Clark pieces, with structural displacement being achieved by addition, rather than subtraction.
Gordon Matta-Clark:
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As for Hasek's Svejk: ". . . it is with a great relief and pleasure that we are hereby dutifully reporting that Book Two and Book(s) Three&Four of our new translation of Jaroslav Hašek's The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War are available for sale as paperbacks at http://zenny.com.
We hope this announcement finds you in good health and disposition and hungry for more adventures of the good soldier ... after all these years."
More information on the Svejk phenomenon at http://SvejkCentral.com
Also, Svejk is on FaceBook now: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Good-Soldier-Svejk/133349009873?ref=nf
Thanks for sharing this. I love Jiri Kolar's work!
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