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Author
Jan Nálevka
Year
2010
Technique and size

drawing with a blue ballpoint pen on A4 office paper

About work

Sheets of white office paper were lined by hand so that the result would be nearly impossible to distinguish from standard pre-printed squared papers. Blank paper received an order of its own. Although the paper area was filled up we can still perceive it as empty, as a table, that only determines the way of a possible filling up in the future, as an arrangement of empty space, organization in the most general sense of the world. The exact order is disturbed by the human factor: although all drawings are identical, each is an original in its minute imperfections. The drawing medium is a blue ballpoint pen, the most ordinary office utensil. The result is an incomparably more laborious version (imitation) of a common utilitarian material. The drawings were installed in the space so that the squared structure of each would be aligned with the others. Together they become a single space-time drawing covering all the walls of the gallery with an open geometrical structure that can theoretically continue to infinity. Although the gallery walls were filled up we can still perceive them as empty, as a visualization of empty space.

Photo

Photo author: Kamil Till
Center for Contemporary Arts Prague www.fcca.cz 2006–2024
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