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“A SIGN IN SPACE” 2003
Acrylic on canvas 80cm X 90cm Inv # it9
I discovered the Italian writer Italo Calvino in the late 1990s. From his “Cosmicomics” I began to develop a series of paintings. “ A sign in Space” is one of them.
“A Sign in Space — The idea that the galaxy slowly revolves becomes a story about a being who is desperate to leave behind some unique sign of his existence. This story also is a direct illustration of one of the tenets of postmodern theory — that the sign is not the thing it signifies, nor can one claim to fully or properly describe a thing or an idea with a word or other symbol”. |