| Jiri Kolar
Born in 1914, Protivin, Boemia. Died in 2002, Prague.
Christ and waterfall
rollage
26,5 x 43 cm
Courtesy Galerie Ernst Hilger, Wien-Paris
Two ladies profiles, 1961
collage
29 x 41 cm
Courtesy Galerie Ernst Hilger, Wien-Paris
... Kolar is a narrator, a discoverer who, on the one hand, casts a light on trivial daily life objects and places them in a wider context. He focuses on the gloss, the complexity, the lesions, the concrescences, the multi-layered character of the tangible world: "In Paris I used to buy old books that came from the Institute for the blind, I did not want new ones". On the other hand he reinvestigates the icons of art history, from Nefertitis to Rembrandt up to Léger; icons, which have been fixed in our memory for a long time. "With a really good picture I can do whatever I want, it will always remain, it
is indestructible".
J. K.
