W.O.M.P. – Series
“The Genius”
© Ivan Cangelosi, 2024
150 X 100 cm
Ink on paper
Technique – Handwriting of the book “Strindberg and Van Gogh: An Attempt of a Pathographic Analysis with Reference to Parallel Cases of Swedenborg and Holderlin“ by Karl Jaspers
About the W.O.M.P. Series works
The main feature of the works belonging to the series named W.O.M.P., lies in the fact that they all have an “abstract origin”. In fact, the preparatory drawings were created through a single gesture, i.e. an instinctive and uninterrupted wandering of the pen over the paper, carried out with closed eyes. Hence the acronym W.O.M.P. (Wandering Of My Pen) which gives its name to this series of works.
The final result, i.e. the definitive version of the paintings, is nothing else than the figurative interpretation of the causal and abstract composition that emerged during the realization of the preparatory drawings. In other words, in the tangle of lines created by the pen’s blind-wandering, it was “hidden” what later took the form of the subjects depicted in the final works.
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