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Projections of the Forest-Land: The Yanomami Image-Drawing

The Yanomami drawings are, literally, extraordinary. For aesthetic criteria, but also, and mainly, for their intriguing and mysterious character, when we stop to think about how and by whom they are made. The images that the reader-viewer can appreciate in the preceding and following pages constitute a small sampling from the collections of Carlo Zacquini and Claudia Andujar, two tireless defenders of the Yanomami territory and…

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Partenheimer and the drawing of drawing

[I] Whether European, Chinese or Brazilian, art critics and commentators of Partenheimer’s work often point to the meditative, aerial, carefree, imaginative and even lyrical nature of his drawings and paintings, never failing to mention the enigmatic balance which makes his work and the silence that appears to inhabit it so highly recognizable (consider the Roman Diary, Carmen, De Coloribus, and Zur Grammatik series or Die fragilen…

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