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Odalisque 4
- Artist
- Christian Bok
- Price
- $200.00
- Date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Mechanical Brides
- Format
- Posters
- Size
- 55.9 × 76.2 cm
“The “Odalisques” constitute one of my idle experiments (the kind of work that I might do when I need a distraction from a more lengthy, more onerous project). Each of these nudes has been created by rearranging the 21 components used by typographers to design the letterforms of the alphabet. Each figure represents a permutation of exactly the same set of curves and shapes, each scaled and turned, perhaps overlapped, but never repeated nor inverted. I am trying to evoke a nude form by drawing according to a constraint, using only a fixed array of strokes. I am trying to evoke the female figure as a kind of difficult, aesthetic potential, imminent within the beauty of a fractured alphabet. “ – the artist
Edition of 20, signed and numbered.
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