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Frequency
18 May - 18 June 2005
Link to online catalogue (requires
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Fused 02 2004 charcoal on paper 52 x 75cm
Think of the sound of drawing. Perhaps it is a childhood recollection
that springs to mind, or maybe drawing classes once attended where the
scurrying sound of shading or the brisk audibility, almost
resistant, of a sweep across the paper accompanies the memory. Add to
this the occasional squeak of too much pressure, or a snapping of lead
or charcoal, and we begin to arrive at an index of
the sound of marks. Such sounds are bound up with the bodily fusion of
mark-making and looking.
Shift 06 2005 charcoal on paper 52 x 75cm
They record the probing of the eye as it is translated into a materiality.
Roland Barthes once put it
this way: “The line, however light, or uncertain it may be, always
refers to a force, to a direction; it is an energon, a labour which reveals
– which makes legible – the trace of its pulsion and its
expenditure. The line is a visible action.”1 In the drawings and
paintings of Andrew Vass we find a similar energon – whereby the
mark or the trace is a unit for directly building and constructing
without losing any sense of this physicality or sensuality. Each mark
appears to hold its own pressure, its own composure while adding to, and
interweaving, a complex whole. (From the catalogue essay by David Ryan)
Tracking 01 2005 acrylic on canvas 152 x 183cm
On-line catalogue
Andrew Vass Home Page
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Detail Stretch 02 2005
Detail Fused 02
Rise 11 2005 charcoal on paper 75 x 96cm
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