Malich
Karel MalichKarel Malich is presented on the European scene above all as a personality who radically changed the model of contemporary sculpture, de materialized it, and connected it to the energy field of the widest cosmic space. The sculpture became an energy event, created in a free space, never
as a material fetish for a gallery. The linear constructions of his sculptures bear a latent kinetic potential, and depend on the behavior of energy over time and change. We can follow the origin of his events in sketchbooks in which Malich systematically recorded his thinking from the 1960s to the 1980s. In the 1960s, his main theme became the so-called corridors or channels of energy, which, according to his experience, were even the body of the artist himself. In reality they denoted a momentous reversal because they abdicated from the anthropocentric principle and the existential experience. At the same time, Malich’s drawings began to step down from the page and became sculptural, hanging in space. Suspended Corridor was constructed on the basis of drawings from 1967. Here, a sculpture becomes a conductive field that connects the space of the sculpture with the endless space of the universe. |
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