Jerzy Trelinski (1940), untitled - postage stamp, 1972

print, ink, paper
4 x 3 cm
certificate of authenticity signed by the artist ed. 50
binding: passe-partout, wooden frame, glass
The postage stamp was created as part of a series of works realized in the 1970s under the slogan Autotautologie. About oneself - nothing. The works consisted of placing the artist's name in the form of a graphic mark on various objects, in various places and situations. The name in capital letters using a simple, always the same font marked the artist's presence in an impersonal way. Autotautologies was initiated in 1972 with an author's book, the pages of which were filled with a dense, rhythmic structure of a name repeated in a diagonal pattern. The same pattern appeared printed on a shirt, tie, dress, tablecloth, pillow or flying flags. The artist continued the perverse, tautological expansion of his own name by sending out postcards with one side printed with a black-and-white pattern also repeated on the stamp on the other side of the card, which bore the inscription "About Myself Nothing."

The work reproduced, among others, in: Jerzy Trelinski, Traces of Presence, Municipal Gallery of Art in Lodz, Lodz 2002.