To begin with Henri Michaux is almost to accept failure. His work resists certainty and dissolves every fixed interpretation. For Michaux, writing and drawing were parallel ways of exploring existence: “I write to go through myself all over” – a continuous investigation of the self through language, gesture, and movement.
Born in Belgium in 1899, Michaux came to Paris in the 1920s and later traveled through Latin America and Asia, experiences that shaped both his writing and his visual work. His drawings – restless lines, shifting signs, fluid forms – do not depict the world so much as record states of perception.
Michaux understood the image as an open field rather than a finished object. His works unfold in series, guided by accident, repetition, and improvisation. They are not illustrations of ideas but traces of moments – “improvisations without subject matter,” as he once wrote, witnesses to movement rather than structure.
This exhibition invites visitors to encounter Michaux’s unique universe, where poetry and drawing merge into a continuous search for new forms of awareness.
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