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Artworks
Enrique Veganzones Spanish, b. 1965
20240807-09, 2024Pencil on paper found in Tbilisi20 x 14 cm
framed 29,5 x 23,5 cmCopyright The ArtistTbilisi is the last of three drawing series developed during the artist’s residency in Tbilisi in August 2024, was made possible through the support of the National Trust of...Tbilisi is the last of three drawing series developed during the artist’s residency in Tbilisi in August 2024, was made possible through the support of the National Trust of Georgia. Dedicated to safeguarding the cultural and architectural heritage of the country, the institution enabled a close engagement with a city of innumerable strata, at once deeply evocative and disorienting, whose singular atmosphere became intrinsic to the series.The series is composed of one hundred pencil drawings on paper found in the city itself, dating from the Soviet era. A notebook in the form of a filing folder, with more than a hundred sheets drilled with three holes, proved to be the necessary, irregular and even precarious support for the drawings that began to emerge.
As a formal description, each graphic exercise aims at defining a rectangle of 97x180 mm, placed in the center of each sheet. This rectangular area, which remains unchanged throughout the series, is the addition of three vertical golden rectangles of 97x60 mm. The subsequent smaller sections that appear are the result of the partitions obtained by applying the number phi to this golden rectangle, thus obtaining modules that are repeated in an unpredictable way.
A simple graphic element, the straight vertical line, provides rhythms in a successive repetition at variable distances, corresponding to divisor numbers of 60. Variations in the thickness, the hardness of the graphite and the color of the lines, affect these rhythms and provide varying densities to each of the modules and sections of the compositions.