Julien Nédélec
Titrer
Brest, Zédélé éditions, 2012
17 x 24 cm
64 p.
ISBN 978-2-915859-42-3

“In 1967 and 1968,” Richard Serra said about Untitled (Verb List), “I wrote down a verb list as a way of applying various activities to unspecified materials. To roll, to fold, to bend, to shorten, to shave, to tear, to chip, to split, to cut, to sever. The language structured my activities in relation to materials which had the same function as transitive verbs.» I too have put together a list of action verbs describing my own practice and in particular my relationship with paper: to turn, to split, to tear, to cut, to mask, to divide, to cut into pieces, to make a hole, to dampen, to fold, to caption, to enlarge, to roll, to duplicate, to look at, to hold up, to turn down the corners, to pick up, to fold down, to crumple, to shorten, to move, to find, to repair, to twist, to dirty, to burn, to groove, to macerate, to lift, to put back together, to bend, to stack up, to grease, to reproduce, to reduce, to examine, to lift up… This list has becomes a working method, which I use in applying simple actions to paper. In this way, the paper itself becomes a sculpture.

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