Exhausting your pen!

75 x 105 cm: is it big? 3 hours: it’s short!

How can an intention (exhausting the pen!) drive a new, unexpected graphic writing…?                                                                             

Specialist Arts students tried to answer these questions while questioning drawing and its contemporary approaches, its tools and supports as well as the involvement of the body in the elaboration of the work. Full of expressive energy, they were inspired by Jan Fabre, Alberto Giacometti  and Thomas Müller. Like them, with a lot of freedom of movement and a great rigour they managed to sublimate the line drawn with the ballpoint pen. 

Keira decided to do her research on Thomas Müller. In the past, when studying topographical maps in geography class, she  found them almost hypnotic. So, by discovering Müller’s “Untitled, 2020”, she wanted to go further in the representation of a somewhat biomorphic motif.  Wishing to give the impression that the motif was spreading on the paper, she drew finer and more numerous lines, essential to its composition, while adopting repeated, almost automatic, but extremely precise gestures.

More details: @creART852