Do the Write Thing #3: Read Between the Lines
The gallery presents from April 2 to May 15, 2022 do the write thing #3, the third part of a group exhibition exploring the theme of writing , more than forty works produced by thirty artists. These scriptural compositions invite us to decipher the hidden meaning of works in which the authors use language in various visual forms to express thoughts, emotions, secrets, frustrations, and the quest for another world.
What, then, occurs 鈥渋n the interval between the legible and the visible鈥 鈥 as Michel Thevoz calls it 鈥 or in what Dubuffet called 鈥渋mplicit languages鈥?
What happens when meaning hides under a profusion of signs? When, in writing a drawing or drawing writing, it is no longer a matter of speaking, by any means available. With the risk, surely, that this metalanguage will traverse the sky without reaching any target. Making it more obvious than anything else that its author was surely the target. Unless, unless one of us crosses that path, ready to be moved by this soliloquy, ready to understand, to literally incorporate this semantic surge that resembles the 鈥淏abelian drive鈥 that Eric Dussert discusses in our exhibit catalogue. And that person would de facto become the providential recipient of this sibylline surge, not as an exceptional cryptographer, but as someone who could find all of the possibilities for expression within himself. Equally capable of feeling the evocative power of the ideogram, image inseparable from text, like in time immemorial, or of taking joy in the ramblings in which science and poetry saunter. Or even of experiencing the graphorrhea鈥檚 little melodies that unfold like mantras.
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The gallery presents from April 2 to May 15, 2022 do the write thing #3, the third part of a group exhibition exploring the theme of writing , more than forty works produced by thirty artists. These scriptural compositions invite us to decipher the hidden meaning of works in which the authors use language in various visual forms to express thoughts, emotions, secrets, frustrations, and the quest for another world.
What, then, occurs 鈥渋n the interval between the legible and the visible鈥 鈥 as Michel Thevoz calls it 鈥 or in what Dubuffet called 鈥渋mplicit languages鈥?
What happens when meaning hides under a profusion of signs? When, in writing a drawing or drawing writing, it is no longer a matter of speaking, by any means available. With the risk, surely, that this metalanguage will traverse the sky without reaching any target. Making it more obvious than anything else that its author was surely the target. Unless, unless one of us crosses that path, ready to be moved by this soliloquy, ready to understand, to literally incorporate this semantic surge that resembles the 鈥淏abelian drive鈥 that Eric Dussert discusses in our exhibit catalogue. And that person would de facto become the providential recipient of this sibylline surge, not as an exceptional cryptographer, but as someone who could find all of the possibilities for expression within himself. Equally capable of feeling the evocative power of the ideogram, image inseparable from text, like in time immemorial, or of taking joy in the ramblings in which science and poetry saunter. Or even of experiencing the graphorrhea鈥檚 little melodies that unfold like mantras.
Artists on show
- Anton Hirschfeld
- August Walla
- Carlo Zinelli
- Dan Miller
- Dwight Mackintosh
- Giovanni Bosco
- Harald Stoffers
- Johann Korec
- John Devlin
- John Ricardo Cunningham
- John Urho Kemp
- José Manuel Egea
- Josef Hofer
- Joseph Lambert
- Kunizo Matsumoto
- Masaki Mori
- Michel Nedjar
- Momoko Nakagawa
- Oscar Morales
- Pepe Gaitan
- Raimundo Camilo
- Royal Robertson
- Yuki Miyashita
- Zdenek Kosek