Sadie
Coles HQ is delighted to announce a show of recent work and a group of
drawings from the 1980s by Raymond Pettibon.
16 Dec. 03 – 31 Jan. 04
Rainer
Maria Rilke
From The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge [1910]
 How
small I must still have been I see from the fact that I was kneeling on
the stool in order to be within convenient reach of the table on which
I was drawing. It was an evening in winter, in our apartment in town,
if I am not mistaken. The table stood in my room between the windows;
there was no lamp in the room save that which threw its light on my papers
and on Mademoiselle’s book; for Mademoiselle sat next me, her chair
pushed back a little, and was reading. She was always far away when she
read; I do not know that she was absorbed in her book. She could read
for hours, but she seldom turned the leaves, and I had the impression
that the pages became steadily fuller and fuller, as if by looking she
added words to them, certain words that she needed and which were not
there. So it seemed to me as I went on drawing. I was drawing slowly without
any very decided intention, and when I stuck, I would survey the picture
with my head bent a little to the right; in that position I always found
out soonest what was lacking. There were officers on horseback, who were
galloping to battle, or they were in the midst of the fray - which was
far simpler, for in that case, almost all one needed to draw was the smoke
that enveloped everything. Mother, it is true, always insists that they
were islands I was painting - islands with large trees, and a château,
and a stairway, and flowers on the bank that were supposed to be reflected
in the water. But I think she is making that up, or this must have happened
at a later time.
(Image
and text taken from Raymond Pettibon: A Reader , eds. Ann Temkin and Hamza
Walker, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1998)
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