Elementair Structure 1974

Anton Heyboer made this print, Elementair Structure, using etching, and ink, as a kind of thinking aloud. His mark-making feels really immediate. The texture here is interesting. See how the horizontal lines pull your eyes across the image? There’s a figure, or a few figures, maybe, but they're not really the point. It’s more about the web of lines and the way they create a kind of structure. Look how some lines are really dark and bold, others are light, almost like whispers. I am thinking of Cy Twombly, who I think Anton Heyboer would have liked. There’s this sense of art as a kind of code, or a map of a mind in motion, and maybe a reminder that art is always an ongoing conversation, full of questions rather than answers.