womb & tomb

On the top left : Mother Kali,
Hindu goddess from India,
womb and tomb,
she creates and destroys worlds,
female, black, time,
standing on the body of Shiva.
Kali, Tara, Shodashi, Bhuvaneshvari, Bhairavi,
Chhinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi, and Kamala.

order & chaos

Two journal-drawings from July 2008.
The first line drawn on a white sheet of paper damages, attacks and destroys the white paper.
The paper destroyed the tree.
Creating is destroying, bluntly said.
Every construction is damaging the earlier state.
Making and creating is in the same time damaging and destroying. This is a conclusion after one year of Surface Research.

Surface Research Results Exhibition # 2

Monday May 31 2010 / 12:00 - 19:00 h
Tuesday June 1 2010 / 17:00 - 21:00 h
Wednesday June 2 2010 / 12:00 - 19:00 h
Thursday June 3 2010 / 9:00 - 14:00 h

Pavilion Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Fred Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam

exhibition pavilion

To create exhibition walls for drawings in the Rietveld Pavilion, which is from glass and one brick wall, I made a sketch to build 7 panels in the Pavilion. It is already build, therefore "l'acrochage des oeuvres" is the next step.

Come and see, next week, INVITATION :

Surface Research Results Exhibition # 2

Monday May 31 2010 / 12:00 - 19:00 h
Tuesday June 1 2010 / 17:00 - 21:00 h
Wednesday June 2 2010 / 12:00 - 19:00 h
Thursday June 3 2010 / 9:00 - 14:00 h

Pavilion Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Fred Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam

invitation

INVITATION
Surface Research Results Exhibition # 2

Monday May 31 2010 / 12:00 - 19:00 h
Tuesday June 1 2010 / 17:00 - 21:00 h
Wednesday June 2 2010 / 12:00 - 19:00 h
Thursday June 3 2010 / 9:00 - 14:00 h

Pavilion Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Fred Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam

Sincerely, Henri Jacobs.

anxiety & anger, ugliness, etcetera

A quotation from Dario Gamboni's book "the destruction of art, iconoclasm and vandalism since the French revolution":
"(...) the essential link that modern psychologists have tended to establish between destructiveness and creativity has gained in modern art an imprecedented visibility and importance, in direct relation to its "iconoclasm". In the 1930's Picasso emphasized this dramatic change to Christian Zervos on the level of the modus operandum: "Previously, pictures advanced to their end by progression. Each day brought something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, a picture is a sum of destructions".

new surface with fertilised soil

To get grip on the matter of art and destruction I would like to start up a new cycle of palimpsest drawings. The photo shows a drawing on Epson photo paper with the proportions of the golden ratio. The triangle of Kepler is drawn and with a small letter template letters which form words are sown to fertilise the surface.
To do some theoretical study on the subject this afternoon I have to go to the library of the Rijks Academy in Amsterdam. To borrow the book "the destruction of art" by Dario Gamboni.

the destruction of art

Barnett Newman's "who is afraid..." and "cathedra" both cut up in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam some time ago.
The destruction of art & the art of destruction aren't two sides of the same coin. Trying to evoke the destructive element in creating art is difficult. Creating drawings is a quite positive act and perhaps a positive belief. It can be done with negative feelings like being bored, feeling ugly, stupid, lazy, ill, sad and mad. Working with destruction is a sentiment difficult to make clear. Destruction as part of creating new drawings. Violence and vandalism should be part of the final drawing. Soon I expect to make it clear.

encore trois semaines

Within three weeks my Surface Research project has had it's first year. Much too short and it passed away like a cigarette in smoke. Fast, pleased with the prospect but finally dissatisfying when the end is near. Why? Because many questions aren't answered, the subject of the destructive element in creating art pieces isn't yet clear to me. The palimpsests and the specific texts used in the palimpsests were a start that dealt with construction and destruction. Precise construction by drawing the texts in grids using a ruler and compasses, well kept in hand destruction by scratching out the texts with a cutter.
After that I made a step backwards by working with specific conditions of a surface which is going to be used for drawings. It was necessary that dimensions had a reason and that is why I worked with the Golden Ratio and the Triangle of Kepler. Again many possibilities in drawings and the destruction of the drawings has been invested.
In the final three weeks I am going to make some new "destructed" drawings to complete the exhibition I am planning for Monday May 31 till Thursday June 3 in the Rietveld pavilion.

Invitation card will be posted soon on this blog.