White Space in White Space
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- White Space in White Space
- Biely Priestor v bielom priestore
- since 1973
- cardboard tubes, canvas- and felt banners, acrylic paint
In Stano Filko’s symbolic system, the “White Space” of the 1970s stands as a continuation of an interest in spatial concepts that began in the artist’s earlier works. They demonstrate a tendency to experiment with formal boundaries. From an art-historical point of view, this White Space is astonishing, even disconcerting, on account of the way it reverses established (Western) art values by giving old metaphysical notions a place within the context of a subversive art praxis. The White Space concept covers a multi-phase, multi-part complex of ideas and works, some of which were made in cooperation with Miloš Laky and Ján Zavarský. One of the accompanying manifestos "Emotion. White Space in White Space” (1977), postulates an infinite space of “non-physical, pure art and emotion,” whose non-color white represents an absolute. This space stands “above” future, present, and past, and it is “super-cosmic.” In a certain sense, it surpasses all existing spaces and symbolizes a state before the act of artistic creation where everything is open, possible, and not determined. Pa.G.