We profess the free "pure sensitivity"
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- We profess the free "pure sensitivity"
- Hlásime sa k slobodnej „čistej senzitívnosti"
- 1974-1975
- Manifesto, canvas bag with 10 textcards
- 29,5 × 15 cm
The collaboration between Laky, Filko, and Zavarský on the conception and development of “White Space in White Space” involved constant transformation and quite some dynamism—also with regard to the size and number of the works. They continued working to distill their initial ideas the same way they had already developed various variations on the objects and presentation (enlargement of painted surfaces, unfolding, unrolling, vertical or horizontal orientation) for the exhibition in Brno in 1974 and thereafter. As a next step, they formulated ten sentences—all of which revolved around the words “pure sensitivity” and “pure sensitive art.” This manifesto was printed in portrait orientation on loose sheets of narrow-format paper and placed inside a cloth case. It was published in nine languages (Slovakian, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Swedish, and Russian). The artists also started realizing their objects in a more concentrated, focused manner. While horizontal formats had predominated in connection with their previous “Sensibility” phase, their “Sensitivity” period is associated with vertical works. In creating these, they developed a specific system that once again drew on the principle of variation but was employed in a significantly more subtle way. They created multiple series of ten (echoing the “Sensitivity” manifesto’s ten points) and, a little later on, eight banners that conformed to two schemes respectively: either the painted area expanded banner by banner, from the outside banners toward those in the middle; or the painted area remained the same size while the size of the canvas banners themselves increased towards the middle of the series. L.G.