Simon Lewis: "Drawing Attention" 16.9. - 29.10.2011
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The most recent stop on this fascinating journey into the subtle dimensions of pictorial thought is marked by the large print, “The Cabinet of Written Pictures”, made up of one hundred one-liners that describe temporally determined states gained from observance and imagination, with the individual lines arranged on a typographic, four-column setting grid, like on a “speech-grille”. In the wonderful conciseness that the English language offers, Lewis succeeds in creating surprisingly evocative “images” that, read one after the other, unfold to form a system of communicating formulations, a subjective “world formula”. In the ten-part picture series, “The Balloon Cartoon”, also never before on view, Lewis uses photographic images for the first time in this context.
» deutsche version
The most recent stop on this fascinating journey into the subtle dimensions of pictorial thought is marked by the large print, “The Cabinet of Written Pictures”, made up of one hundred one-liners that describe temporally determined states gained from observance and imagination, with the individual lines arranged on a typographic, four-column setting grid, like on a “speech-grille”. In the wonderful conciseness that the English language offers, Lewis succeeds in creating surprisingly evocative “images” that, read one after the other, unfold to form a system of communicating formulations, a subjective “world formula”. In the ten-part picture series, “The Balloon Cartoon”, also never before on view, Lewis uses photographic images for the first time in this context.
They depict floating balloons on which dialogic phrases are written, playfully addressing the borders of modern picture-text relations, as we are familiar with from the history of comic strips, by translating them back into the physical realism of the balloon. In addition to these works, I am happy to show a new sheet, “The Last Occupants in Adam’s Waiting Room”, created in conjunction with the “Book of Soundings” – a drawing made up of 150 individual drawings that bring together 150 invented insect species as neutral units in the sizes of 5mm and 1cm. The show will therefore provide a good survey of Simon Lewis’ parallel paths of fantastic inventions.