Dunno

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  1. rt4a, Dunno, 2022, acrylic, gouache and pencil on linen canvas, 42.5 × 42.5 × 5 cm

    Dunno

    2022
    Acrylic, gouache and pencil on linen canvas
    42.5 × 42.5 × 5 cm
    RT4A2206
    Courtesy of the artist

  2. rt4a, Dunno, 2022, acrylic, gouache and pencil on linen canvas, 42.5 × 42.5 × 5 cm
    rt4a, Dunno, 2022, acrylic, gouache and pencil on linen canvas, 42.5 × 42.5 × 5 cm
    rt4a, Dunno, 2022, acrylic, gouache and pencil on linen canvas, 42.5 × 42.5 × 5 cm

    rt4a, Dunno, 2022, acrylic, gouache and pencil on linen canvas, 42.5 × 42.5 × 5 cm

  3. rt4a, Dunno, 2022, acrylic, gouache and pencil on linen canvas, 42.5 × 42.5 × 5 cm

    Dunno began as an attempt to join two things: a sentence painted in the manner of Rémy Zaugg, in the Univers 85 he used, a typeface by Adrian Frutiger, and a self-portrait memoji. The sentence seemed too dramatic and out of place, so I erased it. Erased and invisible, it still made sense: it pointed back to Zaugg, and to Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953.

    The erasure left only the image: the memoji, drawn on a dark ground. Shrugging, it takes its colours from the standard emojis: only the eyes are fully painted; the skin, the body and the clothes are outlined in coloured pencil. The title says what the shrug says.

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