Abstract
This chapter argues the comparative analysis of the Czech Structuralist art school related to Mukařovský, and aims to re-evaluate and re-interpret this intellectual heritage within the timeline of the 1960s through to the present day. We will focus on the principles behind art production which has been characterized by the redundancy of elements in both figurative and non-figurative structures, with a special focus on the work of Zdeněk Sýkora.
Sýkora pioneered the implementation of computer technology to help artists to identify the relations between numerous, complex elements; his source of inspiration including the theories of Jacques Derrida and the work of artists, Paul Cézanne and Paul Klee. Structures and networks whose internal scaffolding we try to infer from the real shape of the web, from the reality of language and sign systems at large (including the structuring of metaphors).
Visual impulses do refer to a reality which emerges before us, or comes into existence, as a thoroughly new experience, and whose assessment therefore requires from us a search for equivalent visual models. The important aspect studied is the establishment of the mutual correlation of various elements of image in transmutation over the course of time.
This chapter discusses examples and showcases works designed according to the transmutations.