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, confronted. The gallery space and the book space. In the first one, the landscape works as a real landscape where we can see the totality and at the same time the details. In the second one, the elements of the landscape can only be seen one after the other, as in a theatrical sequence. In one, the original landscape is gone, it has disappeared. On the other one, the original landscape is there, you just can't see it. In one, the space is the landscape. On the other one, the landscape is the book.

Thus, the three 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 window glass of the gallery. Acrylic ink.

- 100 one-line drawings, made in situ from the previous drawing and hung in the gallery space. Black marker. 420x594mm

- 100 books, built and printed by the author in the same gallery space and done from the 100 previous drawings. (Printed in risograph. Black ink. 100 pages. 210x297mm).

My Monkey Gallery, Nancy. March 2021. France

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