Artists Marc Nagtzaam, Jochen Lempert, Gilda Mantilla & Raimond Chaves, Karel Martens, Matt Mullican and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt
Venue ProjecteSD, Barcelona
All images Courtesy by the artist
Borrowed space (2017-2019) is a set of 24 drawings by Marc Nagtzaam where he depicts a series of drawn compositions, borrowed from existing book covers, posters, and paintings. One sheet of one of Nagtzaam’s Regular Features series of text drawings is also shown as well as another work, his recent risoprint The Approach. As it is typical in Nagtzaam’s work, the words, the dots, the forms or the lines on them come from an archive that he uses all the time to select different elements from for each new project. Nagtzaam’s work is a combination of control and randomness, somewhere in between thought and emotion. As he states: “in my work I try to create the impression of an open space where nothing is fixed and where the meaning of the work remains open”.
Either through words or undifferentiated signs, the idea of nonverbal writing seems to emerge in Borrowed Space and Regular Features. A kind of writing that remains in silence, incomprehensible. Writing that becomes image, or just a manifestation of being in the absolute without form.
