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Jiri Georg Dokoupil Untitled (Blaue Bilder über die Liebe, XIII [Blue Pictures About Love Series, XIII]) 1982 Acrylic on canvas. 90 1/2 x 90 1/2 in. (230.2 x 230.2 cm). Signed and dated “Sept. 1982 J.G. Dokoupil" on the reverse.
Provenance Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne Catalogue Essay Even if he wished to do so, Dokoupil himself could not hide behind his polymorphic works. For he takes a decisive stand in his painting, in his artistic activity: He assumes attitudes toward the actual environment in which he lives, attitudes towards art with its virtually inexhaustible resources of history and denotation... Jiri Georg Dokoupil thus emerges as an analytic artist of distinction. He takes a segment of the world and divides, dissects and explains it through his art. The unifying link in Dokoupil’s oeuvre is much less to be found in the works themselves than in that certain attitude toward world and environment which led Dokoupil to these paintings. This attitude requires Dokoupil’s permanent questioning of things and also a continuous introspection. A time in which blind activity has come to be spurned and positions (whether of a political, scientific or artistic nature) are reexamined, this time may recognize in Dokoupil’s multivalent painting that seductively glistening mirror which, being a neutral medium, reflects the parallel possibilities of existence and the multiple ways of perceiving the world, whatever segment of the world is held before it. R. Beuth, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Berlin/Cologne, 1987, n.p. Read More