18/4/2013
Boris Thiebaut
Anyspace, Bruxelles
In his drawings, details from the past are integrated in a contemporary environnement through the use of timeless materials. Out-of-context doodles with details from historical scenes.
Boris Thiébaut remains faithfully loyal to a fixed choice of materials , dimensions, and page layout. With a fine sense for -typographic- design he connects, in his drawings, out-of-context doodles with details from etched historical scenes. He always manages to reach a symbiosis of opposites within the confines of the paper base. It is one of his most important stylistic characteristcs . In essence he creates a dialogue between earlier, self-drawn notes with cut-outs of sixteenth century engravings. The hatchings, typical of this technique, are enlarged and coloured in like planes while the stains of his doodles in the enlargement are filled in with pencil lines. Copied details from the work of other -dead- artists are given as much importance as his own re-used old logo and boredom drawings. The drawings are as it were a collection of "appropriations" of fragments from his own and the collective memory.
In the drawings of Boris Thiébaut, details from the past are integrated in a contemporary environnement through the use of timeless materials. A few years ago, the artist started using the space outside of the picture plane. His first black and white wallpaitings consisted of extremely enlarged sections of etchings by Jacques Callot and Hendrick Goltzius. Through the enlargement, the lines of the old engravings became planes in a abstract network. It is hard to deduce the origin of the picture from what is presented here. These floor-to-ceiling sized logos became backgrounds (décor) for a serie of drawings. Aside from this evolution, current affairs are given more and more importance in his young oeuvre. In recent work made for the public space, the artist has incorporated traces from contemporary youth culture, such has graffiti and sprayed-on slogans, in an artistic commission assignement.
Image: With Hendrick Goltzius (Dragon dévorant les compagnons de Cadmus) 04, 2012, 195 x 145 cm
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