observing the landscape
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- observing the landscape
- 1974
- 4 b&w photographs
- 31,4 × 30,4 cm
In 1969, Jiří Valoch returned in his linguistically oriented works to the fully semantic meanings of words. By this point, his exclusive use of the typewriter had been joined by new artistic techniques that, alongside drawing, primarily involved working with photography. He focused mainly on the photographic documentation of verbal interventions in “different” spheres (nature, the human body), verbal interventions on negatives, and the quasisemantic ordering of photographic sequences (in his photographic series “Haiku”).
In the 1974 sequence “Observing the Landscape,” he associates landscape motifs such as a bit of forest soil, a stick, or a row of trees with unobjective terms defined always by an aspect of a mere possibility (the possibility of silence, the possibility of time, the possibility of love, etc.).
Along with other photographic works, these were printed in the artist’s monograph by the publisher Poesia Visiva (edited by Luciono Ori). And when asked by his editor Beniamino Carruci to find a theoretician who would write an introductory text to the monograph, Valoch wrote it for himself under the pseudonym of Jan Pavlík (which was his grandfather’s name). This fact serves to illustrate his double role as an artist and a theoretician. J.P.
In the 1974 sequence “Observing the Landscape,” he associates landscape motifs such as a bit of forest soil, a stick, or a row of trees with unobjective terms defined always by an aspect of a mere possibility (the possibility of silence, the possibility of time, the possibility of love, etc.).
Along with other photographic works, these were printed in the artist’s monograph by the publisher Poesia Visiva (edited by Luciono Ori). And when asked by his editor Beniamino Carruci to find a theoretician who would write an introductory text to the monograph, Valoch wrote it for himself under the pseudonym of Jan Pavlík (which was his grandfather’s name). This fact serves to illustrate his double role as an artist and a theoretician. J.P.