Un Paysage Hollandais 12
A Dutch landscape and a drawing. The representation of a landscape that in turn builds another landscape. A drawing that becomes space, and a drawing that becomes a book. Two spaces, one inside the other, facing each other. The gallery space and the book space. In the first, the landscape works as a real landscape, where we can see the whole and the details at the same time. In the second, the elements of the landscape can only be seen one after another, as in a theatrical sequence. In one, the original landscape is gone; it has disappeared. In the other, the original landscape is there; you just can't see it. In one, the space is the landscape. In the other, the landscape is the book.
Thus the three are united, like a Russian doll: space, book and landscape.
The exhibition consisted of:
– A drawing of a Dutch landscape with 100 lines, made in situ on the gallery window. Acrylic ink.
– 100 one-line drawings, made in situ from the first drawing and hung in the gallery. Black marker. 420 × 594 mm.
– 100 books, made and printed in the gallery from the 100 drawings. Risograph, black ink. 100 pages. 210 × 297 mm.
My Monkey Gallery, Nancy, France. March 2021.
