<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><strong style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px;" class="">Jean-Claude Marquette: Fugue Opus 1 in Black, White, and Grey</strong><br style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Wi-Fi Gallery grey) (area, St. Mark’s Square, Korčula</span><br data-end="56" data-start="53" style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Open: 0–24 h, access with personal mobile device</span><br data-end="106" data-start="103" style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">On view from 28 February to 30 April 2026</span><br data-end="150" data-start="147" style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Curator: Darko Fritz</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96);" class=""><em class="">Fugue Opus 1 in Black, White, and Grey (A Tribute to Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, and Norman McLaren)</em> is a digital animation conceived as a contemporary reactivation of a seminal moment in the history of visual and computer-based art. Created for the Wi-Fi Gallery Grey Area in 2026, the work revisits and extends the conceptual and formal investigations initiated in the early 1970s through the series <em data-end="667" data-start="644" class="">Hommages à Khlebnikov</em>.</p><p data-end="1019" data-start="670" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96);" class="">The series, begun in 1971, consists of thirty original prints on listing paper conceived as scores, both visual and procedural. These works functioned as generative documents, serving as the basis for compositions realised across various media between 1972 and 1985, characterised by sharply contrasting chromatic structures and systematic variation.</p><p data-end="1575" data-start="1021" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96);" class="">Central to the animation is the reconstruction of a graphic produced in 1972 using the silkscreen technique, widely regarded as one of the earliest visual artefacts derived from the transformation of literary text into digital binary code. The original paper-based record consists exclusively of ones and zeros, black squares on a white ground, arranged in a 36 × 44 grid corresponding to a 6-bit digital structure. This matrix translates language into a modular visual system, positioning the poetic text as both source material and algorithmic substrate.</p><p data-end="2032" data-start="1577" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96);" class="">The work draws on the poem <em data-end="1629" data-start="1604" class="">Conjuration by Laughter</em> by the Russian Cubo-Futurist poet and theorist Velimir Khlebnikov (1885–1922), inventor of the Zaum transrational language, here mediated through the 1967 French translation by Luda Schnitzer. By subjecting Khlebnikov’s linguistic experimentation to early computational logic, the work establishes a dialogue between avant-garde poetics, postwar abstraction, and the emergence of digital aesthetics.</p><p data-end="2548" data-start="2034" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96);" class="">The <em data-end="2061" data-start="2038" class="">Hommages à Khlebnikov</em> series was exhibited in 1973 at <em data-end="2114" data-start="2100" class="">Tendencies 5</em> in Zagreb, within the section <em data-end="2176" data-start="2145" class="">Computers and Visual Research</em>, situating it firmly within the critical framework of the New Tendencies network. <em data-end="2300" data-start="2260" class="">Fugue Opus 1 in Black, White, and Grey</em> rearticulates this historical lineage in the present, foregrounding questions of notation, translation, and temporal displacement, while reaffirming the enduring relevance of early experiments at the intersection of art, language, and computation.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96);" class="">The exhibition can be accessed through personal mobile devices at Korčula’s St. Mark's Square. This digital art presentation format is organised by the grey) (area and realised in cooperation with the Korčula Town Museum and Format C. <strong class="">The Wi-Fi Gallery grey) (area</strong> has been set up on <a href="https://us8.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpivilion.net&xid=a6ec6eb2db&uid=30817315&iid=dcc0a654db&pool=cts&v=2&c=1771941463&h=402954f14cbb689816c50e0e8079c2dba6cd2df2703a254b6123f27bafd38557" target="_blank" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221);" class=""><em class="">Pivilion</em></a>, a free and open operating system developed by Dina and Vedran Gligo of Format C. The wireless local area network (WLAN) is publicly accessible and automatically displays digital artwork to anyone connecting to the Wi-Fi network, without a password or further action.<br class=""><br class="">more info: <a href="https://us8.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsivazona.hr%2Fevents%2Ffuga-opus-1&xid=a6ec6eb2db&uid=30817315&iid=dcc0a654db&pool=cts&v=2&c=1771941463&h=11911a8e99890e64f5b03ca78c892e10cad8e3bb16079e44a8809977e8f377dc" target="_blank" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221);" class="">https://sivazona.hr/events/fuga-opus-1</a></p></body></html>