Lichtenergie (Light Energy)

Details

Karel Malich (b. 1924)
Lichtenergie (Light Energy)
wire and thread
overall: 55 7/8 x 44½ x 36 5/8in. (142 x 113 x 93cm.)
Executed in 1973

Provenance

Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993.

Exhibited

Vienna, Galerie Peter Pakesch, Karel Malich, 1993 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

'Through every form and in every direction there flows an energy that destroys, creates tension, draws attention away from form and that which exists …[and] bears within it a new possibility, a new world, that is much richer and seems to be inexhaustible'
(Karel Malich, July – August 1972, quoted in B. Reifenscheid, Karel Malich – Cosmic Coitus, https://www.karelmalich.cz/en/exhibition [accessed 31st July 2014]).

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