1 jan 2004

Serge Onnen

Drawing in a wider perspective

Serge Onnen lives and works in Amsterdam, trained at the Rijksakademie there and participated in several group exhibitions at home and abroad.

He brings drawing, animation, film, video and computer graphics together around a central theme and puts the art of drawing in a wider perpective by initiating all kinds of projects.

In his opinion drawing is almost universal, everybody has made a drawing at one time.

Drawing is the only medium that is not time-related, wether it takes two minutes or two weeks to make, a drawing always keeps a fresh, tangible quality as if made yesterday.

Whereas in painting and photography you can clearly see when the work was made, in drawing there is hardly any difference in technique between a prehistoric drawing and a modern cartoon. Also, a drawing is not necessarily art, you will find powerful drawings outside the art context as well.

Onnen published the book/magazine Volume in which a large number of drawn heads made by different artists from different periods is shown.
He then took this concept a step further by making an exhibition of moving heads and portraits and eventually the viewer was given the opportunity to zoom in on a face and thereby creating a certain intimacy.

www.volumehead.org