Tuesday 15 February 2011

On drawing: Jean Fisher


Like being caught up in the rhythm of a dance or a jazz ensemble, or mesmerized by the intonations of a poetic reading, the act of drawing dismantles consciousness and plunges the self into a zone of experience or sensation liberated from the closure of representation and open to the free play of possibilities. Thus the drawing is the expression of this libidinal movement, free of signification and interpretation.



Fisher J., On drawing, in De Zegher C. (ed) The Stage of Drawing: Gesture and Act, Selected form the Tate Collection. London; New York: Tate Publishing and the Drawing Centre (2003)




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