1970s Jiri Kolar Origami Self Portrait

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Jiří Kolář (1914 - 2002) Self-Portrait, 1979 collages. This particular collage is on paper which is attached to board and … Read more Jiří Kolář (1914 - 2002) Self-Portrait, 1979 collages. This particular collage is on paper which is attached to board and frames in an acrylic frame. There are 6 self-portraits, all signed and dated individually. There is damage to the frame and the board that the paper is attached to but no damage to the works of art. These would look so great framed individually but kept in a series of 6

He started with experiments using photographs to create new stories, contrasting themes reminiscent of Dadaism. He would cut strips of colour reproductions and glue them together vertically so that they deform the original image; chiasmage, where he arranged small cut-out pieces into geometric shapes; or used cut-out or crumpled paper material, which he glued to a base. His abstract poems were created on the typewriter, arrangements of letters, numbers or characters in geometric compositions. Since 1963, he has used various objects as a three-dimensional background of the collage See less