Lot 434 D

The artistic process in the work of Zdenek Sýkora is characterised by the interplay of system and chance, the result of which are visualised by the artist in his characteristic style.
The colour, form and flow of his linear constructions are calculated by a computer programme and transferred to the white canvas by way of a complex work process.
'Concentrating on grey-blue through to black tones, ''Linie 85'' features 10 lines which stretch between the left and right hand side of the picture and condense at the centre. In their continual flow, the lines are bound by the edges of the picture carrier so becoming a fragmented depiction of the calculated formula. The artist is responsible for the extract chosen, through which he retains conscious control over the computer-generated creativity.
'' Sýkora's apparent disorder follows precise number rules. […]lineal structured pictures, […] which not only appear as fragments from a larger picture, but actually are fragments. Because at the point where the lines of varying strength, colour and contour leave the picture, their existence through the computer's solution-suggestions do not have to be terminated. The artist sets their limits with the picture's edges. The specification of the picture square no longer has anything to do with the traditional framing of a 'this and no other', self-contained picture. It could be conceived that Sýkora chooses different overlapping sections from a single computer suggestion and executes them in different, but in some ways, similar images.'' (Walter Vitt, in: Zdenek Sýkora 1964-1991, exhib.cat. Bad Münstereifel-Mahlberg 1991, p. 64-66).