Bookcase, 2011, ongoing,
installation view at EMST (NAtional Museum of Contemporary Art)
 
Tristan Corbière
, Yellow Loves, 2011, carbon copy on paper
         
 
                 
 

Bookcase is an on-going project which comprises so far around 50 drawings. In each drawing I have transcribed an entire book onto a single carbon copy paper, which I have placed on a single sheet of paper in layers. The titles of the works hint at what the drawings are about and the book transcribed each time.

This series of works was inspired by the labor-intensive work of monastic scribes, their dedication to such an important task, as well as the possibility of the error which may turn a book into a muddled illegible script that can only be seen as an abstract image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

 

 

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List of works

   

1. Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman, 2011

2. Asma Asmaton [Song of Songs], 2011

3. Aristophanes, The Clouds, 2011

4. S.T.Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 2011

5. Marguerite Duras, The Man Sitting in the Corridor, 2011

6. DylanThomas, UnderMilkwood, 2004

7. Paul Éluard, Poems, 2011

8. Federico Garcia Lorca, Sonnets of Dark Love, 2011

9. Odysseas Elytis, Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenent
of the Albanian Campaign,
2011

10. Antonin Artaud, In Total Darkness, 2011

11. C.P. Cavafy, Erotic Poems, 2011

12. Kostis Palamas, The Grave, 2011

13. Nikos Kavvadias, Li, 2011

14. Wang Wei, On Painting, 2011

 

15. Tristan Corbière, Yellow Loves, 2011

16. Miltos Sachtouris, Colour Wounds, 2011

17. Lou - Kiang - Tseu, Ombres Chinoises, 2011

18. Guillaume Apollinaire, The Breasts of Tiresias, 2011

19. Eugene O'Neill, Desire Under the Elms, 2010

20. Oscar Wilde, Salomé, 2011

21. Edgar Alan Poe, The Purloined Letter, 2011

22. Sappho, Od. Elytis, A Reference to Andreas Embiricos, 2004

23. Paul Klee, On Morden Art, 2011

24. JohnBerger, Ways of Seeing, 2011

25. Virginia Woolf, A Letter to a Young Poet, 2011

26. Μ. Karagatsis, Lost Island, 2010

27. Giorgos Cheimonas, Peisistratus, 2011

 

 

     
         
 
         
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