DATASTREAM
In 2017 Marisa Rappard started working on a series of drawings depicting a mesmerizing stream of hatchings. She treats the paper with coloured stains of acrylics and then covers this image with lines in black ink. By repeating lines she creates dense patches that collide, together forming an image meandering between figuration and abstraction. The abundance of information is partly recognizable, yet distorted and elusive: the stream of lines may remind of pixels and databits, an inextricable tangling of anxiousness, or a peculiar landscape, yet remains abstract.
Initially acting on impulse and coincidence, Rappard carefully adjusts each drawing until it invites the beholder to enter and wander around in it endlessly.
‘Fabricator’
acrylic and ink on paper
263 cm x 340 cm
2017
collection NOG/Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Tapestry ‘Moving Brightness, Hidden Gem’
158 x 255 cm
jacquard woven at the Textile Lab, Tilburg
2019
LANGUAGE LOST
A dense and messy spatial work flows forth from a series of black and white drawings. ‘Language lost’ adresses the sense of being human in a world in which we are daily overwhelmed by a flood of information, in which it is hard to distinguish what is true. In an abstract, rythmic play of shapes and colours, occasionaly recognisable elements from daily life appear.
