Lot 39: Lichtenergie (Light Energy)

Karel Malich (b. 1924) Lichtenergie (Light Energy) wire and thread overall: 55 7/8 x 44½ x 36 5/8in. (142 x 113 x 93cm.) Executed in 1973

113 x 93cm.

Vienna, Galerie Peter Pakesch, Karel Malich, 1993 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993.

'Through every form and in every direction there flows an energy that destroys, creates tension, draws attention away from form and that which exists …[and] bears within it a new possibility, a new world, that is much richer and seems to be inexhaustible' (Karel Malich, July – August 1972, quoted in B. Reifenscheid, Karel Malich – Cosmic Coitus, http://www.karelmalich.cz/en/exhibition [accessed 31st July 2014]).