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Griet Dobbels ‘Straight Line Attempt’This books is a leporello of 20 leaves, length 4,2 m Griet Dobbels (b. 1964) is a visual artist. Key concepts in her work are: the dialectic between grandeur and insignificance, transience and timelessness, nature and culture, beauty and horror, safety and danger, chaos and control, universality and individuality. Formally, these subjects translate into various media: drawings, video installations, sculptures and happenings. Dobbels explores

Hannelore does not shy away from immersing herself in the repetitive act of drawing

Although Gerhard’s paintings may seem forceful

[The closest English equivalent would be ‘ouch’

They find their strength in the certainty with which each line is applied and the absence of any superfluous detail

growing out of an awareness regarding the intrinsic beauty of matter

Christophe Van Gerrewey suggests that the incompleteness of art mirrors the undecidability of the world

This is a conscious choice as words often give an all-too-clear and one-dimensional meaning to a work

we take each individual image with us

He chooses a number of abstracted

in more or less chronological order

But in the conversation between Ritsart and Maarten Inghels – the author of the text accompanying the book – it is again emphatically about time: “‘As you move closer and distance yourself again

reading and writing and that was selected by as many as four lecturers: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

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