Valoch ji í (7 risultati)

Condizione: Near Fine. 14×14,2 cm. Softcover. Unpaginated. English. Artist's book featuring 6 ultra minimal concrete haikus. Limited edition of 300 copies.

Condizione: Fine. 10,5x15 cm. Exhibition invite for a group show documenting avant-garde activities in Eastern Europe. Exhibiting artists: Gabor Attalai, Tamas Hencse [sic], Natalia, Dalibor Chatrny, Milan Grygar, J. H. Kocman, Ladislav Novak, Petr Stembera, Jiri Valoch, Leszek Kacma, Andrzej Lachowitz [sic], Zbigniew Dlubak. Printed on thin sheet.…

Prague: Trigon, 1995. Square octavo (23 × 21 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 269, [2] pp. Very good. This volume represents the first publication of various concrete and visual poetry cycles created in the 1960-90s by Eduard Ov?á?ek (born 1933), which could not be published during the Czech Normalization-period of the 1970-80s. Along with such figures as Ji?í Valoch, Ji?í Kolá?, Josef Hir?al and Bohumila Grögerová, Ov?á?ek was one of the foremost practitioners of concrete poetry and lettrism in Czechoslovakia. "Ov?árek endeavoured to achieve a revitaliyation of the language, based on a mythology of script, ideograms, hieroglyphs, pictograms and calligrams, as well as on a bilingual expression of writing as image. Ov?á?ek's cycle Lekce velkého A is an example of politically engaged utilization of the techniques employed by concrete poetry and its grotesque and ironic forms, which is typical of the Czech context. It is based on a confrontation between big A and little a, which have a quite unambiguous symbolic meaning in the texts -- big A symbolizes the power hegemon, which has decided to coerce its satellite, symbolized in the text by the grapheme a. The cycle was created during the critical period of the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the armies of five Soviet bloc states in August 1968" (Piorecky, "Before a poem is written: Czech concrete poetry," 325). Contains a preface by Valoch and Pohribný, as well as a detailed bibliography and list of exhibitions. One of 1000 copies, of which 100 were numbered (this one unnumbered, but inscribed by the artist). As of January 2024, KVK, OCLC only show two copies in North America.…

London: Writers Forum , 1971. Octavo (21 × 14.6 cm). Original side-stapled xeroxed wrappers; xeroxed text on Chinese-style folded leaves; [19] pp. Very good. English edition of "poems in the language ga realisated (sic!) especially for this collection, dedicated to bob cobbing ladislav novak henri chopin barnard heidsieck francois dufrene ernst jandl" by the Czech concrete poet Valoch. Consisting entirely of variations on the letters g and a, as well as the morpheme 'ga', with added musical notation in the spirit of sound poetry. KVK, OCLC show copies at UC London, MART, SUNY Buffalo, Ohio State, Washington University, HRC Texas, UC San Diego and the British Library.…

A substantial collection of 42 works of concrete poetry, documentation of poetic performances, and artist books by the central figures in unofficial and experimental poetry in Communist Czechoslovakia - Ji?í Valoch, Karel Miler, J.H. Kocman, and Václav Vokolek. A special highlight of the group is the collection of 30 works of concrete poetry, poetic performances, and artist books by Ji?í Valoch (b. 1946), a key figure in unofficial and experimental Czech poetry and art of the 1960s-1980s. The present collection was assembled by the pioneer of concrete poetry in Poland, Stanis?aw Dró?d?, with most materials traceable to specific curatorial or publishing projects. The works of J.H. Kocman and Václav Vokolek in the collection likely go back to the exhibition of Czech and Slovak concrete poetry which Dró?d? organised in 1976. The substantial collection of materials by Ji?í Valoch was likely used in his solo exhibition which Dró?d? organised in Wroc?aw in 1979. A solo exhibition of Václav Vokolek was held in Wroc?aw in the same year, with a brochure for the solo show also included in this collection. Many of the works in this collection are signed and dated by the artists, with some including a dedication to Dró?d? I. Ji?í Valoch A collection of 30 works of concrete poetry, poetic performances, and artist books by Ji?í Valoch (b. 1946), a key figure in unofficial and experimental Czech poetry and art of the 1960s-1980s. A conceptual artist working in visual poetry, photographic poetry, text installations, mail art, and organizing numerous unofficial art exhibitions, Valoch's place in the Czechoslovak art world was similar to that of Stanis?aw Dró?d? in the Polish context. Like Dró?d?, Valoch studied philology. He started creating visual poetry in 1963, earlier than Dró?d?, likely because the form was better known in Czechoslovakia which had a relatively more open cultural environment until Prague Spring of 1968. Valoch would eventually graduate from Masaryk University in Brno, with a thesis on visual poetry in 1971. Starting in 1972, Valoch worked as a curator at The House of Arts in Brno. After the Prague Spring and throughout the 1970s, the political climate would shift and Poland would come to have the more culturally liberal environment. As a result, throughout the 1970s Valoch would present his work more often abroad, taking part in the Fluxus movement, publishing books with Something Else Press and other projects with Dick Higgins, George Brecht, and George Maciunas. He also exhibited in Brazil, Germany, and Poland throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Valoch's first solo exhibition in Poland was held at Jaros?aw Koz?owski's Akumulatory Gallery in Pozna? in 1974, followed by an exhibition organized by Józef Robakowski, in ?ód? in 1976. Stanis?aw Dró?d? curated an exhibition of Czech and Slovak concrete poetry in Wroc?aw in 1976, which included the works of Valoch. Dró?d? would also curate a solo show of Valoch in 1979, with many of these works likely brought to Poland for these exhibitions. According to the art historian Helena Musilova, it was the rich exchange with Poland in these years that inspired Valoch to organise the 1980 exhibition Contemporary Czech Drawing (Soucasna ceska kresba) which caused a scandal, and resulted in a ban on his domestic publishing (See: Helena Musilova, "Sou?asná ?eská kresba [Contemporary Czech Drawing]: Ji?í Valoch and the Possibility of Organizing a Collective Exhibition during the so-called Normalization Period", in Notebook for Art, 2019). The ban would lead Valoch to publish unofficially, and to distribute his work abroad and underground. The works of Ji?í Valoch are held by international private and public collections including The Centre Pompidou, The Ludwig Museum, Tate Modern, and The Stedelijk Museum among many others. II. Karel Miler Two cycles of concrete poetry by the Czech conceptual artist Karel Miler (1940-2025). Miler started writing visual poetry in the 1960s, while working as a lighting technician alongside Václav Havel at the Na Zábradlí theater. Consisting of a list of color names - pink, black, gold, green - arranged in a variety of shapes, the two poetic cycles seem closely tied to his work in lighting design. Miler would move away from visual poetry by the early 1970s and is best known for his performance works, which he created direct-to-photography with action artists Petr ?tembera and Jan Ml?och. Unable to exhibit these works in Czechoslovakia, the artists sent the photographs to conceptualist galleries in Western Europe. A number of these documented performances, as well as one artist book, are held by the Centre Pompidou. Stanis?aw Dró?d? curated an exhibition of Czech and Slovak concrete poetry in Wroc?aw in 1976, with the present works likely sent by Miler for this exhibition. III. J.H. Kocman One early artist book and one piece of Mail Art by the Czech conceptualist artist Ji?í Hynek Kocman (b.1947). In the late 1960s, Kocman officially studied veterinary medicine, while unofficially studying aesthetics with the master of Czech visual poetry, Ji?í Valoch. A prolific artist, Kocman was active in the mail art movement in the 1970s, and is also often mentioned as one of the animators of Fluxus East. Kocman's artist books date back to 1970, with hand-made paper and use of rubber stamps as typical features, juxtaposing the uniquely made and the serially reproduced. The present work plays with notions of authenticity and uniqueness - concerns central to artistic production - by presenting an unbound stack of seven loose leaves assembled in a folder, each leaf hand made with a large watermark in the center. The pages are also rubber stamped with statements such as "yes, I am J.H.Kocman" and signed by hand. Clearly intended for an international audience, most of Kocman's works from this period are in English. His later exploration of authorship and uniqueness of artistic production would lead to his creating artist book objects by pulpi.…

Condizione: Near Fine. Artist's book. Plain cardstock portfolio (8.25 x 6.5 inches) housing 8 loose leaves; one colophon and seven woodcut letterforms. A clever concrete poem from Ji?í Valoch and Sa?a Rychecký, decomposing Che Guevara's last name into its syllabic constituents, with a few additional tokens (lla, er, ri) that allow for the generation of new Spanish words: e.g. guerra, guerilla, llave, valla, etc. Colophon hand-numbered as 23 of 50 and SIGNED by both artists; portfolio further INSCRIBED by Valoch to Fluxus artist Bengt af Klintberg. Faint offsetting from marker inscription to colophon leaf, with minor bump to top corner of remaining leaves; near fine. Scarce, with no OCLC records located. Signed.…

[Brno: self-published], 1969. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original printed card folder, with four letter-press printed leaves of text to rectos loosely laid in, as issued. Signed and inscribed on folder flap by Valoch, in German, and with red pen drawing to front wrapper, presumably also by Valoch. Very good. Rare collection of four leaves of Valoch's visual poetry, consisting of striking arrangements of letters, pictograms, and other typographic units. With an unstated print run, issued as a New Year's greeting card (PF). With the author's hand-written dedication ("Herzlichst Ji?í Valoch"). Gifted to Konrad Balder Schäuffelen (1929-2012), a German psychiatrist, author, and translator of visual poetry. As of January 2024, KVK, OCLC show a single copy at the Danish National Art Library. Hot held at the Czech National Library.…