Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper » Sara Sosnowy https://zgj.181.mywebsitetransfer.com Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:01:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Sara Sosnowy on Deborah Nehmad https://zgj.181.mywebsitetransfer.com/sara-sosnowy-on-deborah-nehmad/ https://zgj.181.mywebsitetransfer.com/sara-sosnowy-on-deborah-nehmad/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:47:58 +0000 http://drawntapedburned.aboutdrawing.org/?p=962
BURNS DOTS NUMBERS LETTERS HOLES DENSE LOOSE RAIN ACID RAIN TAR SMOKE


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BURNS
DOTS
NUMBERS
LETTERS
HOLES
DENSE
LOOSE
RAIN
ACID RAIN
TAR
SMOKE



These are words that come to mind when I look at this drawing by Deborah Nehmad. It is a small drawing, which suits the image perfectly. Drawing by burning. Pyrography. Having never experimented with this process myself, I wonder if the burns can be controlled. I wonder what it smells like.

The drawing is textural – with crevices and holes and charred edges crumbling. It is painterly – with black blobs bleeding ochre, forming tentacles of a jellyfish or points of a starfish. It is celebratory – suggesting fireworks and confetti. Concise and compact, this little drawing is a jewel. It evokes an immediate response from me when I read the words HAPPY 80th WYNN. I then realize that it is a drawing of celebration – a tribute to a friend.

]]> https://zgj.181.mywebsitetransfer.com/sara-sosnowy-on-deborah-nehmad/feed/ 0 Frank Badur on Sara Sosnowy https://zgj.181.mywebsitetransfer.com/frank-badur-on-sara-sosnowy/ https://zgj.181.mywebsitetransfer.com/frank-badur-on-sara-sosnowy/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:59:57 +0000 http://drawntapedburned.aboutdrawing.org/?p=997 Sara Sosnowy’s Gold Drawing # 77 evokes the fact that the value system of any society is shaped and defined by a continuous process of cultural interchange. Sosnowy’s very intensive work on paper appears, on the one hand, as a subtle reference to the reductive work of the French artist Yves Klein. On the other hand, her delicate drawing opens the door to intercultural dialogue with India’s ritualistic tantric art, the principal quality of which lies in its complex creative freedom. In this art form we encounter small colorful gouaches on paper, as well as abstract diagrams visualizing complex principles of cosmic order.
Read more...]]> Sara Sosnowy’s Gold Drawing # 77 evokes the fact that the value system of any society is shaped and defined by a continuous process of cultural interchange. Sosnowy’s very intensive work on paper appears, on the one hand, as a subtle reference to the reductive work of the French artist Yves Klein. On the other hand, her delicate drawing opens the door to intercultural dialogue with India’s ritualistic tantric art, the principal quality of which lies in its complex creative freedom. In this art form we encounter small colorful gouaches on paper, as well as abstract diagrams visualizing complex principles of cosmic order. Vacillating between crude imperfection and utter sophistication, often of extreme simplicity and touching sensuality, these works are always intent on creating a spontaneous relationship between artist and beholder. It is not the here and now of an immediate reality that is being interpreted but a world beyond. It is in this sense – as an image beyond images – that I view Sosnowy’s energy-laden Gold Drawing # 77. The vibrant “all-over” of the golden circles, a form as abstract as universal, presupposes almost automatically the deep ultramarine blue background. The congenial imprecision of the gently haptic dots bears witness to their individual process-related creation and to their autonomy as individual parts, which in their multitude form a harmonious whole. It seems as if the artistic result has come about quite effortlessly, its intuitive verity unimpaired by any intellectual deliberation.

Translation by Jörg W. Ludwig

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