Corridor brown - Booth 5
Fragments to the GRAPHITIC CARBON drawings and sculptures
steel grey grey translucent reflecting greying
GREY-SHAPED
chemical ELEMENT carbon in SHAPE
sediments of graphite on paper
GRAPHITIC CARBON – mineral material – interfused my work since 1972 and holds the oeuvre formal together
GRAPHITE reflects light in a thrilling way for me, it invents a substantial fetish of its world
GRAPHITE SIGNES and FORMS arise from the study of the body
the graphite faces spread out on the SUPPORT paper
the DENSITY of the rills and structures produce an AREA OF TENSION
geometrical FORMS build SHADOWS
CLEAR EDGES map
Franz Vana (2012)
Some Art
Some art is illustrative : discursive , literary in its thrust ; and that doesn`t interest me much.
But some art is terse, stubborn, wordless; almost stolid in its intensity. It sits there and glares. It tells no story. It is. - -It takes up twice the space it should. Some art pulls down with twice its weight. It pushes out with twice its power. It steals the place it´s put in. It fills it and changes it; fills it with itself exactly, with its own immediate existence, with its own generalized history, with its own weight and waiting. Some art changes my past more than it changes my future.
Some art cancels the world it´s put in - -cancels it as a stamp is canceled, drawing as much interest and attention to what is covered as to the covering object itself. Some art changes the place I move in. It prowls that space, sniffs the air, and hunts out toward the edges.
Some art makes me jump. - -It´s the perverse, almost geographical object. It´s the indigestible object. It´s the content-less object. It´s the barely anthropogical object. It´s the continental drag. - -It´s almost enough for me.
Richard Nonas ( 2003 )

preview and vernissage : Vernissage (upon invitation): 2 November 2017.

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