Instant light
Subtitle: Benoît Van Innis
By: Javier López de Goicoechea Zabala ; Ann Joséphine Meskens
Series: Posture Editions -- no 35; Posture Editions (Series) -- no 35.
Publisher: Posture Editions
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Gent
Language: dut; eng; fre; spa
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9789491262364
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19 (Disease); In art
Other titles: Benoît Van Innis; Instant light.; Instant light. French.; Instant light. Spanish.; Instant light. English.
Description: Benoît Van Innis (b. 1960) studied painting with Dan Van Severen at Sint-Lucas in Ghent. Shortly after graduating his drawings were published in De Morgen and De Standaard der Letteren. Since 1989, he has drawn 31 covers for The New Yorker. Benoît is widely known for the eight portraits he created for the tiled walls in the Brussels metro station Maalbeek. This beautiful work of art became the setting for a terrorist attack in 2016.00On Day 1 of the Belgian lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic Benoît van Innis made a drawing with a black felt-tip pen on an A4 sheet. He sent the drawing to some friends?most of them from the art world?by mail and WhatsApp.00On Day 2 of the lockdown, he made a second drawing and again he sent it to his friends and acquaintances. The response was overwhelmingly positive. The drawings were shared on social media and dS Weekblad published an interview and five drawings. The protagonist in these drawings is the artist himself, who reacts to the exceptional situation departing from his own universe.00The book 'Instant Light' compiles the entire series of drawings Benoît made in his studio in Brussels. They feature all his favourite subjects: painting, Club Brugge, literature, the world of art and French chanson.000The publication is a collection of unique drawings that constitute a personal account of this unprecedented period in our history. It?s as if these stylishly elegant and sometimes virtuoso drawings instantly brighten up this dark page; they also provide an ideal diversion from the countless bad tidings we?re confronted with every day.
Notes: Texts in Dutch, French, Spanish, and English.