About the project
CZEN
Artlist — Center for Contemporary Arts Prague

We can lose everything but not time

Author
Jan Nálevka
Year
2009
Keywords
Technique and size

blue ballpoint pen drawing on office paper, 6 packs by 500 pieces

About work

All sheets from packages of white office paper were manually linked so that the chance to distinguish them from the standard preprinted lined paper is minimal. Bright papers have received "order". The most common office tool; a blue ballpoint pen, became the drawing material. Days of intensive work were needed to create one package of paper. The result is an extremely laborious version (imitation) of standard utilitarian material. Does the lined structure fill initially blank paper or is the absence of text made present by the empty lines...?

Photo

Photo author: Stefan Lux
Center for Contemporary Arts Prague www.fcca.cz 2006–2024
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