Nine palimpsest drawings were the first output of my Research Residency at the Rietveld Academie, and are made during September 2009 - December 2009. In January 2010 these nine Palimpsest drawings are used as research material for a lecture for a PhD in the arts symposium in The Hague in February 2010.
This is the first chapter of my Surface Research.
After the lecture I had to regenerate the Artistic Research plan. With the idea of being of some importance for the students I organised a workshop "intensive drawing". The workshop worked with the very simple concept about the drawing surface, which is its size. We made drawings after the Golden Ratio and the triangle of Kepler.
Second chapter of my Surface Research.
At the end of the first year of this Artistic Research Residency I made a drawing in advance of the second Research Residency year. Sixteen states of making and destroying and redrawing one drawing are showing the systematically process which I want to use in the second research year.
Third chapter of my Surface Research.
In September 2010 I started the second research year with a creation & destruction project by destroying three canvases. After that four drawings are drawn and destroyed. And finally five photographic self-portraits are destroyed with various techniques.
Fourth chapter of my Surface Research.
After this practical destruction research my research became more theoretical about the subject Idolatry and Iconoclasm. List of literature:
Frans Kellendonk: Idolen. Over het tweede gebod, Meulenhoff Amsterdam 1993
Sven Lütticken: De kunst van het iconoclasme, 2007.
Bruno Latour en Peter Weibel: Iconoclash, Beyond the image wars in science, religion and art, ZKM Karlsruhe 2002
Jan Assmann: Moses the Egyptian, the memory of Egypt in western monotheism, Harvard U.P. Londen 1997
Sigmund Freud: Moses and Monotheism, translated by Katherine Jones, Hogarth Press 1939
Ad Reinhardt: Art as Art, the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt, edited by Barbara Rose, University of California Press L.A. 1975
This literature and a text which is going to be published soon on this blog is the fifth chapter of my Surface Research.
Chapter six is going to be an exhibition in autumn 2011 and will be organised by Alexandra Landré. A publication with texts and images is going to be the seventh and last chapter of my two years of Artistic Research at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Thanks a lot for the opportunity and the hospitality Gerrit !
