Painting space : Fabienne Verdier / Doris von Drathen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drathen, Doris von.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Verdier, Fabienne--Criticism and interpretation.

Verdier, Fabienne.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

185 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Milano : Charta, [2012]

Summary:

There are rare painters who in their hearts are sculptors. Fabienne Verdier is one of these. And yet, a serious consideration of her painting in the context of sculpture has never been ventured until now. Art historian Doris von Drathen, whose writings teach a radical new way of thinking beyond aesthetic categories, has come to a lucid yet deeply philosophical understanding of this uncommon painter. Born in France, Verdier studied in China for more than a decade, and for the past thirty years she has pursued-in total freedom from the art world and its trends-a painting practice that exists beyond abstraction, that constantly strives to transform observed complexity into its unqualified essence. This book contains two parts: an intimate conversation between the author and the artist, which provides unprecedented access to Verdier's studio process; and an expansive, monographic essay in which Doris von Drathen compares Fabienne Verdier's astonishing pictorial universe to that of artists such as Joseph Beuys and Richard Serra, and guides the reader to the profound realization that the distinctive brushstroke that the artist has made the center of her work is not a painterly gesture, but a manifestation of the reality of space. The author's fundamental insight is that these paintings do not represent space, but are essential embodiments of spatial energy-atemporal dialogues with telluric forces that immerse the viewer in their gravitational field. Book jacket.

Contents:

I The World in a Single Point 20

The Circle as an Open Question

Sound as Spatial Energy

The Polyphony of the Number One

II Being on the Path 40

Spacial Traces as Crystallized Time

Polyphony of Footprints

Between the Speed of Light and Rootedness...

III Being in the Flow 58

Life-time and World-Time

The Thrownness of Being

The Infinitely Large in the Infinitely Small

IV Being in the Cosmos 80

The Dynamism of Edges and Other Borders

The Transparency of stones

In the Cosmos of Fractals

V Being a Voice 106

The Circle as an Agglomeration of Energy

Color as Sculptural Sound

Polyphony of the One

Epilogue 130.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788881588527 :

OCLC:

825044212