David Claerbout The Pure Necessity (Power Sculpture), 2017
Washed ink, pencil, acrylic paint on paper
50 x 70 cm (unframed)
69 x 89 x 3,5 cm (framed)
The drawing is from a series related to David Claerbout’s animated cartoon Die reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity. Claerbout creates a small number of drawings with each of his projects as notes to himself regarding problems encountered during film shootings or preparatory studies. This drawing concerns the relationship of the cartoon character and a wild animal, an important theme of the animated work where the anthropomorphic traits familiar from the source are replaced by movements more typical of animals in the wild.