żołty time / blue Zeit / rote czas
Kozłowski, Jarosław
Krakow. Galerie Potocka / Muzeum Sztuki Aktualnej. 1988
Scarce artist book by Polish conceptual artist Jaroslaw Kozlowski.
From the edition limited to 99 copies, signed and numbered '93/99' by Kozlowski in pencil to the inside of the rear wrapper.
This bookwork presents a clever conceit on the artificiality of time. The trilingual title translates as 'yellow (zolty) / time / blue / time (Zeit) / red (rote) / time (czas'). The final page contains the text 'What time is it? It's five seconds of yellow', also translated into German and Polish.
'Kozlowski's rich and multifaceted work has its roots in conceptualism. It is marked by a critical-analytical discourse with art and the mechanisms of perception, self-reflection and the building of correlations between the grammar of the artistic language and the sphere of meaning. In the 1970s he created works of a purely linguistic nature; they reflected his interest in language games and puns, as well as in transposing the rules of formal logic to reality and vice versa.' (Ewa Gorzadek, 2004).
With the stamp of the Galeria Potocka / Muzeum Sztuki Aktualnej to front and rear wrappers as issued; minor toning and rectangular marking to the rear wrapper, nevertheless a very good copy. Kozlowski's book is scarce and we can locate only one further example, that at MoMA.
From the edition limited to 99 copies, signed and numbered '93/99' by Kozlowski in pencil to the inside of the rear wrapper.
This bookwork presents a clever conceit on the artificiality of time. The trilingual title translates as 'yellow (zolty) / time / blue / time (Zeit) / red (rote) / time (czas'). The final page contains the text 'What time is it? It's five seconds of yellow', also translated into German and Polish.
'Kozlowski's rich and multifaceted work has its roots in conceptualism. It is marked by a critical-analytical discourse with art and the mechanisms of perception, self-reflection and the building of correlations between the grammar of the artistic language and the sphere of meaning. In the 1970s he created works of a purely linguistic nature; they reflected his interest in language games and puns, as well as in transposing the rules of formal logic to reality and vice versa.' (Ewa Gorzadek, 2004).
With the stamp of the Galeria Potocka / Muzeum Sztuki Aktualnej to front and rear wrappers as issued; minor toning and rectangular marking to the rear wrapper, nevertheless a very good copy. Kozlowski's book is scarce and we can locate only one further example, that at MoMA.
[2 leaves; pp. (4)]. 4to. (297 x 210 mm). Original monochrome photograph of a wristwatch pasted to front cover verso; first leaf with original crayon drawing of three horizontal lines in yellow, blue and (pinkish) red. Original publisher's white printed card wrappers, stapled as issued, titles to front cover in black.
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