Korespondaz B+K

From summer 1986 until fall 1987, the renowned artist Jiri Kolar, an ‘old man’ (as he described himself), and young French writer Beatrice Bizot corresponded daily – he mailed her a collage, she wrote him a letter. Small collages, postcards, short letters, sometimes just a few sentences. But every single day. For Kolar, it was an attempt  to motivate and encourage a talented young woman to pursue her dreams. Little he knew when he proposed the exchange that it would actually change her path.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo of a catalog for ‘Korespondaz’, an exhibition at the National Gallery in Prague (thank you, Alena!).

A Beauty of Thought: Jiri Kolar’s Visual Poetry

Strangely enough, I had to move over the Atlantic Ocean to discover many Czech and Slovak artists of the 20^th century avant-garde. Jiri Kolar (1914 – 2002), a prolific Czech poet, visual artist and translator, created a vast body of work, collages, that prompted my recent explorations in printmaking and its application for relief and 3D work.