Július KollerNO ART! 1970

NO ART! is a conceptual artwork consisting of a Czechoslovakian postal telegram slip, with text printed on it in green ink. The artist has stamped his name and address in the ‘Sender’ box, and the date as 1970, but the ‘Recipient’ box is addressed simply ‘Československo’ (‘Czechoslovakia’). The slip has also been stamped with the word ‘Bratislava’ in faint black ink, suggesting that this is the location where Koller acquired the slip. The text in the message box reads UME NIE!, which is a play on the Slovak words ‘umenie’, meaning ‘art’, and ‘ume nie’ meaning ‘nevermore’… (read more)