Mirror orientation
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- Mirror orientation
- Zrcadlová orientace
- 1973
- self-published book, 14 b&w prints
- 21,5 × 15,5 cm
Chatrný’s 25 self-published volumes from the 1969–73 period—created in reaction to the limited possibilities in terms of exhibiting and publishing in the wake of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968—document the conceptualization and dematerialization of Chatrný’s work at that time. Each of these A5-format works, designed with a cover and containing loose sheets, was produced in small numbers by Chatrný’s brother Ivan on the offset printer of the School of Arts and Crafts in Brno. Each focused on resolving a particular riddle. “Mirror Orientation,” consisting of twenty-three sheets, highlights the relativity of seemingly fixed verbal references with its ordered pairs of drawings of words such as “front back” and “back front” or “up down” and “down up.” K.C.