Check also the article on the site of the Brussels Newsroom!
vrijdag 30 december 2016
zondag 22 februari 2015
Theodora Revisited
The first screen print in my new atelier in Brussels! Hand printed on cardboard and paper, image 29 by 29 cm. It tells the story of the city Theodora, one of Italo Calvino's 'Invisible Cities'. The architecture includes buildings by Alvar Aalto (Saynatsalo Town Hall), Le Corbusier (Villa Savoye, Maison Guiette), Gerrit Rietveld (Schroderhuis), Tadao Ando (4x4 house), Victor Horta (Huis Tassel) and myself. If you are interested in acquiring a unique copy you can contact me at thomas.willemse@gmail.com.
zaterdag 21 februari 2015
zondag 13 april 2014
COSMOS
Not to lose ourselves in the cosmos, we take hold of a reference point in
space. We look for a point that is in sharp focus where the contemplation about
the cosmos can materialize and find a sheet of paper. With each new line of
text – extracted from George Perec’s Espèces d’espaces – an image of the cosmos
is taking shape from my personal reference point.
Within
this frame of the page the other scale levels can be considered. However, these
other levels can never expand beyond the limits of the page as our focus
decreases with every increase in scale. Where you can scrutinize every square centimetre
of the sheet of paper – and you literally traverse each one with your pen / the
ink of the silkscreen print / ... – your bedroom has unknown corners, your
house has places covered under a thick layer of dust, ...
With
every increase in scale level, the precision of its representation on the sheet
of paper drops. The page is represented with a 1 to 1 precision, the bedroom,
house street, town, country, continent, earth, cosmos are each time smaller
until you end up with the single dot at the centre of the page: a final
abstraction.
Thomas
Willemse
March 2014
March 2014
zaterdag 28 december 2013
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