Untitled
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- Untitled
- Bez názvu
- 1960s
- collage, paper on cardboard
- 28,8 × 21,5 cm
The close relationship between yet another of Kolář’s formally reductive works, consisting of two circular cut-outs, and the string with knots described above is evidenced not only by how they were filed side by side in the author’s archive and by the identical format of the black cardboard backing them but also by the topic of weaving. The legend on one of the cut-outs—containing the phrases “shed open,” “shed closing,” “shed opening,” and “shed closed”—clearly refers to the design of a weaving loom whose mechanism maintains the so-called shed, i.e. the wedge-like gap between the two series of warp lines through which the weft is woven. The programmable mechanism of the weaving loom was one important presupposition of the manifestos by Umberto Eco concerning “programmed art” and by Abraham A. Moles concerning “permutational art,” whose Czech translations were published in the 1967 anthology Slovo, písmo, akce, hlas [Word, Letter, Action, Voice] right next to Kolář’s essay “Perhaps Nothing, Perhaps Something.” K.C.