Henri Jacobs, Dutch artist living and working in Brussels, was invited to start the first RRR. His research project is titled "Surface Research”, in Dutch language : “oppervlakte onderzoek”.
Henri Jacobs: After 28 days of Surface Research at the Rietveld Academy it's a opportunity to show the results in a small, tiny exhibition. So, in the new year 2010 on the seventh of January the works are exhibited in the pavilion from 12:30 till 21:00 hours. Be welcome, the researcher is going to be there, to dialogue about the drawings.
First film of Surface Research project
This first video film of about 10 minutes, on erasing and drawing a text wants to show the making of a layered palimpsest. The text which is going to be white-out is a quote from Cioran : "Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later he will regret not having left it intact". A new layer of text is going to be constructed on the erased Cioran quote : (...) to be far beyond terror and pity and to be the eternal lust of becoming itself - that lust which also involves the lust of destruction. This Nietzsche citation is also going to be white-out. At the end this palimpsest keeps over the residues of circle parts from the different letters.
Filming drawing and making a montage which is not to tedious is "autre chose" than drawing itself. Even though drawing is a slow process, filming it can show the act itself in a efficient and not too boring way. Perhaps it is a adequate manner to research drawing. Soon I am going to film drawing with a subject that is not so neatly constructed as these palimpsests. I want to try to evoke in the most simple way what drawing can be. I want to evoke how the simple act of drawing is working.
