Louise Despont, Twin Hive, 2014, Graphite, colored pencil, ink and gold leaf on antique
ledger book pages, 16 x 23 inches.
I, 2014, Graphite, colored pencil, ink and gold leaf onn antique
ledger book pages, 12 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches.
Not exact matches
The papers, known in Ukraine as the «black
ledger,» are a chicken - scratch of Cyrillic covering about 400
pages taken from
books once kept in a third - floor room in the former Party of Regions headquarters on Lipskaya Street in Kiev.
They owe their intricacy and color to graphite and colored pencil, on
pages from old Portuguese
ledger books.
Along with Kiefer's earliest
book, The Heavens, the exhibition includes Cauterization of the Rural District of Buchen, 1975, seven
books made from charred remnants of paintings, indicating Kiefer's longstanding interest in alchemy and his exploration into the possibility of metaphorically healing a wounded German landscape; and Twenty Years of Solitude, 1971 — 91, which uses unbound lead
pages as a foundation for a series of white, semen - stained
ledgers.
Alongside the work that Dwan showed in her East and West Coast galleries, there are also maquettes for gallery invitations, old - fashioned - looking
ledger books with installation plans, and various guest
books — one of which was open to a
page with signatures by, for example, Marcel Duchamp, Lucy Lippard, and Clement Greenberg.
McVeigh isolates
pages from sources such as sailing manuals, old encyclopedias and
book keeping
ledgers and assaults them with drawing or mark - making, prompting dialogues through obliteration and accretion.