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May 8-15, 2020
Mikado
Installation/music instrument
Edition 1/1
variable dimension
painted wood
2012
Edition 1/1
variable dimension
painted wood
2012
Partiture for John Cage
Edition 1/1
painting on plywood
250 x 290 cm
2012
painting on plywood
250 x 290 cm
2012
Haiku IV
Haiku IV
94 x 95 cm
painting on asfalt paper
2010
94 x 95 cm
painting on asfalt paper
2010
First performance "John Cage 80"
Lost score
collage
Dimension 82 x 120 cm
Framed 98 x 136 cm
The intermedia artist Milan Adamčiak is the most significant originator of musical graphic prints in Slovakia.
Attracts mainly visual, structural, algorithmic and performative diversity of his musical scores; some are based on a traditional notation, others are abstract, others seem to respect organic shapes, patterns and structures, some are strict, others 'fly away', we find among them calligraphic, geometric, point, linear, contour, embossed, block, ground, spatial, letter, numerical, schematic, tempered, raster, layered or instructive. Despite their morphological and structural diversity, they reveal the distinctive style and handwriting of their author, obsessed with exploring all the possibilities of visual representation, fixation and distribution of sounds.
The work was exhibited at Slovak National Gallery, Adamčiak Begin!
Dimension 82 x 120 cm
Framed 98 x 136 cm
The intermedia artist Milan Adamčiak is the most significant originator of musical graphic prints in Slovakia.
Attracts mainly visual, structural, algorithmic and performative diversity of his musical scores; some are based on a traditional notation, others are abstract, others seem to respect organic shapes, patterns and structures, some are strict, others 'fly away', we find among them calligraphic, geometric, point, linear, contour, embossed, block, ground, spatial, letter, numerical, schematic, tempered, raster, layered or instructive. Despite their morphological and structural diversity, they reveal the distinctive style and handwriting of their author, obsessed with exploring all the possibilities of visual representation, fixation and distribution of sounds.
The work was exhibited at Slovak National Gallery, Adamčiak Begin!
From my Life
collage, stamps, drawing
Dimension 50 x 70 cm
Framed
From series Panfilia (Postal office)
Collage as music score. Many of the music scores he made led him to his first systematization and typology of sheet music in the mid-1970s, which he redefined and supplemented in 1980-1995.
Dimension 50 x 70 cm
Framed
From series Panfilia (Postal office)
Collage as music score. Many of the music scores he made led him to his first systematization and typology of sheet music in the mid-1970s, which he redefined and supplemented in 1980-1995.
R-Post-action
Collage and drawing
Dimension 51 x 71 cm
Frame 85x61cm
R-Post-actions is unique collage, from cycle Panfilia (Postal office). Many of the music scores he made led him to his first systematization and typology of sheet music in the mid-1970s, which he redefined and supplemented in 1990-1995.
Dimension 51 x 71 cm
Frame 85x61cm
R-Post-actions is unique collage, from cycle Panfilia (Postal office). Many of the music scores he made led him to his first systematization and typology of sheet music in the mid-1970s, which he redefined and supplemented in 1990-1995.
Siet/Net
Music score
drawing on paper
Dimension: 29,7 x 42 cm
Framed 38 x 48 cm
Music scores, graphic scores for different instrument. In the context of a gradually relaxing atmosphere in art, he followed the line of discovering experimental poetry, happenings, and the Fluxus movement.
drawing on paper
Dimension: 29,7 x 42 cm
Framed 38 x 48 cm
Music scores, graphic scores for different instrument. In the context of a gradually relaxing atmosphere in art, he followed the line of discovering experimental poetry, happenings, and the Fluxus movement.
Music for Harting
2 pcs
Dimension 21 x 29,7cm
Frame 28 x 36 cm
Music graphic score inspirited, composed for Hans Hartung. Pencil drawing as a sketch and original drawing.
Framed two works, together.
Dimension 21 x 29,7cm
Frame 28 x 36 cm
Music graphic score inspirited, composed for Hans Hartung. Pencil drawing as a sketch and original drawing.
Framed two works, together.
Untitled
Drawing on paper
23 x 32 cm
23 x 32 cm
Music pour Julius Koller
Drawing on paper
23 x 32 cm
In the late 1970s, he formed a close relationship with Július Koller who regularly invited him to meetings of non-professional/amateur artists mentored by him; Adamčiak agreed to join three of Koller’s summer symposia, and he exhibited as an amateur graphic artist. This was at a time when academic artists like him were prevented from exhibiting officially – however, their work could be seen at amateur photography exhibitions, which gave rise to a strong generation of Slovak conceptual photography artists that significantly influenced the history of Czechoslovak photography.
23 x 32 cm
In the late 1970s, he formed a close relationship with Július Koller who regularly invited him to meetings of non-professional/amateur artists mentored by him; Adamčiak agreed to join three of Koller’s summer symposia, and he exhibited as an amateur graphic artist. This was at a time when academic artists like him were prevented from exhibiting officially – however, their work could be seen at amateur photography exhibitions, which gave rise to a strong generation of Slovak conceptual photography artists that significantly influenced the history of Czechoslovak photography.
Typepoems
9pcs
21 x 15 cm
Framed 32x23cm
typewriter on paper
1969-71
21 x 15 cm
Framed 32x23cm
typewriter on paper
1969-71
Typoraster
12pcs
21 x 21 cm
Framed 26x26cm
typewriter on paper
1969-71
Collection of 12 pieces typewriter on paper
each 21 x 21 cm, framed 26x26cm,
1969-1971
Adamčiak created repetitive structures from a type- writer’s accumulated letters (Typorasters), and visualize complicated life situations so as to produce a combination of lines. He combined drawings and text in diagrams, with a line representing intensity, tension and the passage of time among two verbally-defined polarities, such as life and death, tension and loosening and the like.
21 x 21 cm
Framed 26x26cm
typewriter on paper
1969-71
Collection of 12 pieces typewriter on paper
each 21 x 21 cm, framed 26x26cm,
1969-1971
Adamčiak created repetitive structures from a type- writer’s accumulated letters (Typorasters), and visualize complicated life situations so as to produce a combination of lines. He combined drawings and text in diagrams, with a line representing intensity, tension and the passage of time among two verbally-defined polarities, such as life and death, tension and loosening and the like.
Typoraster (Visual poetry)
9pcs
21 x 15 cm
Framed 32x23cm
typewriter on paper
1969-71
21 x 15 cm
Framed 32x23cm
typewriter on paper
1969-71
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