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6 September - 4 October David Scher (USA - Missouri, 1952) Some thoughts about my drawings…. Painting is walking through mud, drawing is catching a fly. Places where things happen as novels. Places where the accidents of movement and juxtaposition can occur creating forms that I could not invent directly. Anti narratives in that any dialogue or linear story is absent yet the scenario is somewhat theatrical. The drawings are simple compositions yet complex enough to make a reading of the entire drawing impossible. Drawings as events in drawing, not statements. Transparency of watercolor and lightness of lines that are not only models of perception but actual experiences of what they can be read as merely representing. Drawings as models of consciousness not only the artist’s but the viewer’s. Drawings as texture, a noisy enough texture to mirror the world. These drawings are also architectural essays that represent the complexity of the street. Drawings of humans that, though often as simply rendered as cartoons, have internal lives. Drawings where humor is dried out. The drawings are completely imagined with no reference to photographs or life study. They are the world as known by the artist. I don’t know where my characters come from. Buster Keaton and the army of anti heroes found in literature and film seem to have something to do with these people of mine but I never thought about it much. Representational imagery can convey an incredible amount of information and it is a joy to have these people walk away from one’s hand. They have been placed in a world. They don’t know that is in an art world. Don’t tell them. (uit de catalogus ‘David Scher’ (2008) uitgegeven door Jean Brolly Gallery, verkrijgbaar in het kantoor.) |
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