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One hundred years after the birth of Karel Malich (1924-2019), art historian Karel Srp reviews and summarizes the knowledge of one of the immortals of Czech art. Srp knows that Malich’s wire sculptures “created after 1976 are difficult to place in the history of art”, but this does not prevent him from examining them in a new way and with extraordinary erudition, courage and clarity, not omitting any of the discourses – from Steiner to Merleau-Ponty. Srp’s consistency, combined with his fascination with a creator who “managed (…) to combine abstraction and realism, empirical ordinariness and cosmogonic visions, insignificance and gravity, transience and eternity (… ) the passage from raw impression, from the simplest, most mundane fleeting experience, not even worth recording, to the supersensible realms”, he does not stop even before the most difficult questions of the interpretation of “sensation, manifested haptically, or the transcendent disembodied luminous vision, invisible to the eye”. Thus said Srp: “Malich wanted to grasp the world with ,all the bloody things‘.”