Drawing 'Untitled', from the Penumbra series (Danja Akulin)
Drawing: charcoal on canvas
Title: Untitled, from the Penumbra series, 2019
Artist ; Danja Akulin (1977)
Danja Akulin wants to make drawings that look like paintings. Layer by layer, he applies his charcoal in every direction, creating painterly relief on the canvas.
The artist himself:
"I tried out all sorts of disciplines, before I realized I could express a lot more in pencil or charcoal than I could with brush and pint. By working on a large scale, I stress the fact that my drawings are autonomous works a lot".
Akulin is interested in the interplay of light and dark, or 'Penumbra'. This is the title of a series of drawings, with landscapes in what appears to be moonlight or a solar eclipse.
The artist views these as conceptual works, in which black stands for the darkest emotions and white the lightest.
Here you see more of this series:
Museum MORE, Gorssel, The Netherlands, had last year an interesting exhibition called 'Size Matters | Monumental Drawings', where you could see dozens of large-scale and imposing drawings. All these works of art measure at least 2 meters in height of width, larger than most people themselves.
I visited this exhibition, just a day before it ended and was quite impressed. I will show you a few works. Enjoy ;-))
Drawing 'Untitled', from the Penumbra series (Danja Akulin)
Drawing: charcoal on canvas
Title: Untitled, from the Penumbra series, 2019
Artist ; Danja Akulin (1977)
Danja Akulin wants to make drawings that look like paintings. Layer by layer, he applies his charcoal in every direction, creating painterly relief on the canvas.
The artist himself:
"I tried out all sorts of disciplines, before I realized I could express a lot more in pencil or charcoal than I could with brush and pint. By working on a large scale, I stress the fact that my drawings are autonomous works a lot".
Akulin is interested in the interplay of light and dark, or 'Penumbra'. This is the title of a series of drawings, with landscapes in what appears to be moonlight or a solar eclipse.
The artist views these as conceptual works, in which black stands for the darkest emotions and white the lightest.
Here you see more of this series:
Museum MORE, Gorssel, The Netherlands, had last year an interesting exhibition called 'Size Matters | Monumental Drawings', where you could see dozens of large-scale and imposing drawings. All these works of art measure at least 2 meters in height of width, larger than most people themselves.
I visited this exhibition, just a day before it ended and was quite impressed. I will show you a few works. Enjoy ;-))