LIONEL MARCH - from SMALL WORLDS

from SMALL WORLDS is a collection of seventy paper-cuts in eight sets.

Wassily Kandinsky produced a folio of twelve prints entitled Kleine Welton (1922), but in its scope and intent SMALL WORLDS was inspired more by Bela Bartok's pedagogical work Microkosmos (1926 - 1937), comprising 153 pianoforte pieces ranging from the most elementary five-finger exercises to highly developed works for four hands. In its way too, SMALL WORLDS is a didactic work which moves through elementary visual design exercises in black and white — for example, Point and Line to Plane and Meet and Join — to systematically structured, chromatic studies of increasing complexity. The series SMALL WORLDS was conceived and commenced in 1979 as a reinterpretation and investigation of themes of concern to pioneers of the constructional programme in the visual arts. Seventy paper-cut pieces are shown here from the 120 originally produced. Two works have since been replaced by newer versions as digital prints: Point and Line to Plane, 2002/6 (reduced from 34 to 10) and Meet and Join, 2008 (retained at 16).

Seventy paper-cuts using Pantone papers waxed onto bristol board are enumerated below:

BLANK! one work, the beginning ...

INTERVALS AND CHORDS, eighteen works evocative of Joseph Schillinger

CYCLE OF FIFTHS, sixteen works evocative of Joseph Albers

DIALECTIC, three works evocative of Georg Vantongaloo

FORMS OF BEAUTY, eight works evocative of Frank Lloyd Wright

PLUS AND MINUS, sixteen works evocative of John McLaughlin

CHOICE AND CHANGE, six works evocative of Alexander Rodchenko