Reksi 1992

Here is the drawing Reksi, a red monochrome, made with pencil on paper by Alfred Freddy Krupa. I'm picturing Krupa making this. The quick movements, the side of a graphite stick, and the pressure to yield a light or dark tonality. He is figuring out how to capture this fox-like dog with a few artful gestures. Maybe Krupa is thinking about Durer's animal drawings, or some cave paintings in France. Look at how the individual lines begin to describe the form, becoming the form. The lines are delicate and light, a subtle but effective way of describing the form of the dog’s head in profile. The light tonality captures the animal's fur in a way that is at once precise and expressive. Each artist is in conversation with the next, thinking through and past the canon, and making something new. Thinking through drawing, thinking through painting is an embodied experience, one of searching and not knowing. Painting is an ongoing pursuit, it begins but never quite ends.