Panorama by Jirí Balcar

Panorama 1958

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Dimensions image: 21 x 30.5 cm (8 1/4 x 12 in.) sheet: 26.2 x 37.3 cm (10 5/16 x 14 11/16 in.)

Jirí Balcar made this print called 'Panorama' with ink on paper. Look at those scratches, scrapes, and scribbles. I can just imagine Balcar wrestling with the plate, inking, wiping, and pressing. You know, printmaking is all about pressure, and I wonder what kind of pressure he was under to make marks like that? There’s such a directness, a rawness, that reminds me of Cy Twombly. I'm really drawn to the chaotic energy in this image. It’s like he’s trying to capture the feeling of a place rather than just the look of it. The city becomes this web of lines and textures, a kind of emotional map. When we look at a work like this we are joining a conversation about what it means to express something about the world through a very embodied, physical, and emotional process. And it’s a conversation that’s been going on for a long time.

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