Untitled
1951
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1951
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1951 ink by Zoran Mušič, depicting fish, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a jumble of thin black lines on white paper—some look like fish, others like bones or scraps of cloth. Mušič made this in 1951, just six years after he survived Dachau. The lines aren’t a pretty school of fish; they feel like something glimpsed in a half-empty bowl or on a prison bunk. The lithograph stone let him press the same plate over and over, so the marks stack up like memories that won’t fade. If you want to see how ink on paper can hold quiet weight, look up lithography.
