{"id":17080,"date":"2025-02-23T00:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T03:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/texto\/grandeza-portrait-trees-combining-photography-and-drawing\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:30:01","slug":"grandeza-portrait-trees-combining-photography-and-drawing","status":"publish","type":"texto","link":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/en\/texto\/grandeza-portrait-trees-combining-photography-and-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"“grandeza” portrait trees combining photography and drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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greatness,<\/span><\/i> ongoing series since 2021<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cIf Mondrian went from the tree to the square, he simply knew
how to take advantage of one of the infinite possibilities of the
tree. So, let\u2019s revisit the square to find the tree.\u201d
Frans Krajcberg<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cIn \u2018Greatness\u2019,\u00a0 I portray trees by articulating drawing and photography.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>

The juxtaposition of these two media does not seek merely the formal addition of techniques,<\/span><\/i><\/p>

but the creation of a hybrid territory, where the boundaries between line and photographic<\/span><\/i><\/p>

record become tenuous. This crossing promotes the deconstruction of the conventions of <\/span><\/i><\/p>

each language, allowing the emergence of new forms of perception, inscription, and<\/span><\/i><\/p>

presence of the image. These portraits are at once indexical and iconic, and cease to be<\/span><\/i><\/p>

reproducible. Here, the black-and-white photograph is enlarged beyond its limits, in order to <\/span><\/i><\/p>

reach the scale of each tree. To this broad vision of the whole, revealed through<\/span><\/i><\/p>

photography, I add the vision of detail, realized through the precision of charcoal drawing,<\/span><\/i><\/p>

which faithfully renders certain aspects of the tree, like a face.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Photography and drawing strive to create an image in the very dimension of each tree.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

This work is carried out in modules: the enlarged photograph is divided and printed in parts. Its <\/span><\/i><\/p>

dimension is determined in relation to each tree portrayed. The drawings are likewise made in <\/span><\/i><\/p>

parts, each corresponding to the format of its photographic fragment.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>

The final result is composed of the gathering of all photographic and drawn parts.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

The use of juxtaposed modules is a poetic strategy: each panel is a fragment of a larger<\/span><\/i><\/p>

image that sometimes remains unfinished or impossible to be fully seen.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>

This approach creates a non-sequential experience, requiring the physical movement of the <\/span><\/i><\/p>

viewer and promoting an embodied and decentered reading of the work.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

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In \u2018Greatness\u2019, I work with paper and charcoal, fragments of carbonized trees.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

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\u2026in drawing, the charcoal remembers that it is a tree and that it can reveal its essence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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greatness, ongoing series since 2021 \u201cIf Mondrian went from the tree to the square, he simply knewhow to take advantage of one of the infinite possibilities of thetree. So, let\u2019s revisit the square to find the tree.\u201dFrans Krajcberg \u201cIn \u2018Greatness\u2019,\u00a0 I portray trees by articulating drawing and photography.\u00a0 The juxtaposition of these two media does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-17080","texto","type-texto","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-text"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/texto\/17080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/texto"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/texto"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17080"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/texto\/17080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20078,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/texto\/17080\/revisions\/20078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}