Lot 433 D

Linie 49 is a striking example for the complex line structures in Zdenek Sýkora's oeuvre. Both the colour, spectrum as well as the diversity of the individual line executions, are manifold. Linear shapes and sweeping structures encounter each other and in their contrast they illustrate the diversity of their computer-generated basic material. With the superposition of the lines and their varying width and colour intensity, the whole arrangement attains a further dimension suggesting spatial depth against the white background. “What at first looks like a two dimensional linear composition obtains spatial qualities when examined more intensively: as the result of the variously thick and long lines really overlapping, associations of spatial ideas are not set free, not, however, in the sense of an uniform central perspective that presupposes a single point of view on the viewer's part, but in the sense of an innerpictorial relationship of front and back with reference to the thickness of the lines and consequently their position in the pictorial space. Through a complex system of references, the viewer is presented in this way with linear means optically unanticipated spaces, which appear to thrust into infinity in the sense of cosmic dimensions”. (Ulrich Schumacher in: Zdenek Sýkora 1964-1991, exhib.cat. Galerie Teufel, Bad Münstereifel-Mahlberg 1991, p. 58).