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BLEGVAD, PETER: Imagine, Observe, Remember.(252pp 234 x 142mm art paperback.)
ReR signed and numbered Limited Edition of 75 copies, with additional artwork by Peter. £20, as long as we have them.
252pp 234 x 142mm art paperback. (Just buy it).
This is Peter
Blegvad, so it’s not going to be simple. He wants it to be simple, but
so does a corkscrew - if you’re looking for skewer, try kitchenware.
And, of course, a corkscrew is simple - it does a hard thing in
hyper-efficient way and it’s a passport to a lighter, headier world; and
when slipped into a sleeve it becomes an Archimedean screw – both
ancient transport system and - when reversed - power generator. I.O.R.
is a life’s, work – I remember Peter working on this back in the
mid-1970’s - since when it has evolved, reoriented itself and folded
itself over other worlds. But its fundamental lineaments remain the
same: imagine a thing and draw it, observe an instance of that thing and
draw what you see, then draw it again from memory. A simple practice
that has generated, under Peter’s hands, a ramifying skein - a
cornucopia even - of useful (or entertaining) meditations on perception,
mental process and the knottier implications of transcendental
idealism. ONE HAT, MANY RABBITS. In a way - as one might observe of
psychoanalytical practice - it’s of little matter where the work starts
since what comes out of it is a map of the way one’s mind is working -
and every drawing, every conclusion, every association inevitably loops
back to that. If your mind is a four-dimensional corkscrew (time being
the 4th), the chances are that any point of concentration will give
birth to things of great wonder and deep pleasure – as is the case here.
Alongside over 250 drawings and paintings, beautifully laid out, Peter
imagines, observes and remembers his own entanglements with the ontology
of the project, does his damndest to explain its genesis and evolution,
lays out a tendrils of his biography and interrogates himself - and the
linguistic/cultural/neurological nexus - in an extremely useful,
erudite and entertaining way. It's a manual and a meditation. A tactile
(through judicious use of different paper stocks), rather beautiful and
mentally engaging confluence of nimbleness and heft.
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Code: imagine signed
Price: £20.00