Streker på et papir taler til betrakteren som veinettet på et kart. De følger tegnerens nervebaner. Streken i en god tegning risser seg inn i sansene, slik fiolinens vibrato i en stor komposisjon finner gjenklang i evigheten. Intet kan erstatte tegningen.
Perspektivet, sentral perspektivet – fikk for alvor sin form i Renessansen. Rommet ble skapt. Med rommet oppsto lys. Og med lyset kom tiden. Lyset er fargen, tiden er bevegelse.
Renessansens perspektiv og det rommet som definerte mennesket som individ, er min arv. Rommet krever handling, vilje og at individet forholder seg til sine omgivelser, emosjoner, og sin skjebne. Om dette taler streken direkte. Derfor lever Renessansen videre i mine tegninger og malerier.
En kjent fransk kunstner og tegner uttalte med en viss bitterhet at tegningen var kunstens forsømte barn, så å si musenes abort. Men hvis den får leve, er tegningen begynnelsen til alt. Det er dens styrke.
I min kunst kan hverken mine malerier eller mine skulpturer finne liv uten tegningens fundament.
Lines on a piece of paper speak to the viewer like the road network on a map. They follow the cartoonist’s neural pathways. The line in a good drawing carves itself into the senses, just as the vibrato of the violin in a large composition finds resonance in eternity. Nothing can replace the drawing.
The perspective, the central perspective – really took shape in the Renaissance. The room was created. With the room, light arose. And with the light came time. Light is color, time is movement.
The perspective of the Renaissance and the space that defined man as an individual is my legacy. The space requires action, will and that the individual relates to their surroundings, emotions, and their fate. The line speaks directly about this. That is why the Renaissance lives on in my drawings and paintings.
A well-known French artist and draughtsman stated with some bitterness that drawing was art’s neglected child, so to speak, the miscarriage of Muses. But if it is allowed to live, the drawing is the beginning of everything. That is its strength.
In my art, neither my paintings nor my sculptures can find life without the foundation of drawing
