suprematist relations
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- suprematist relations
- 1977
- typewritten text and pencil drawing on handmade paper, 4 drawings
- 29,5 × 21 cm
A unique collection of artworks entitled “Suprematist Relations” combines semantic mes-sages with non-verbal, drawn semantics. The verbal content refers to universal elements of landscape (star, horizon, river, stone), to physical perceptions of landscape (sound), and to transformative states of human existence (memory, dream, waiting). In combination with the minimalistic drawn material, it evokes being in the landscape, becoming landscape. Jiří Valoch’s art transgresses the boundaries between linear text and visual object. An isolated term or set of terms is presented entirely in the imaginary realm, seemingly objectified as part of an autonomous visual sign, transcending mere language. Hence, a metaphysical moment of transferring the visual object to the imagination occurs. The title refers to Male-vich’s suprematism, in particular to his focus on basic geometric shapes in a search of a new manner of feeling (the art of geometry not as one of rational forms, but as a mediator of transcendental experience). J.P.