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Jaspar,
it seems, was once a poet. His early paintings, indeed, were
regularly inhabited with words and phrases. However, over the
years, Jaspar’s words gradually became deformed; they
metamorphosed into irregular, crooked lines and shapes. In the
current works these jagged lines, which bear only a slight, and
yet somehow disconcerting resemblance to the words in which they
have their origin, are positioned roughly in the center of
Jaspar’s frame. In many of the works they traverse a divide
between light and dark sections, as though hovering over a
horizon. |
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Work No. 00-15
Dimensions: 21x29.5cm
Price: 65 000 yen
(frame 7 000
yen)
Oil on paper
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While
Jaspar may have changed his focus from poetry to painting, his
task has not altered. Words remain his primary interest. The move
to painting prompted an investigation of the painted form
of words, an investigation that eventually ended in their
distortion and morphological destruction. However, this
destruction of form has allowed for new possibilities in the
meaning of his ‘words’. The ‘meanings’ of Jaspar’s
formless ‘words’ are now provided by the relationships in
which they stand with the rest of his painting – the
sections of light, sections of dark and so forth. Jaspar has
redefined the concept of the ‘word’: one now waits to see how
he can use it in his ‘poetry’.
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