Lot 200

Jiří Kolář a Běla Kolářová ONE RING MORE, ONE RING LESS...

Běla Kolářová worked on artistic experiments in parallel with her husband Jiří Kolář. At first she worked with photographic methods and during the 1960s she began to arrange photographs of objects and small objects into geometric grids. From his poetic roots, Jiří Kolář has shaped himself as an autodidact through various stages in his work to become one of the most respected artists of European stature. The work "One ring more, one ring less..." is exceptional because both Mr. and Mrs. Kolář worked on it together and imprinted it with their distinctive style and poetics. The Kolář "disappearance" created by the method of chiasmage and the material assemblage of Bela Kolářová looks at the female portrait in a completely new way, which is both introspective and playful and full of exaggeration.