This small engraving reveals a symbolic vision at the end of the year: human beings on the capital of a column and an indefinite space. In the desire to elevate the mind, the engraver is inspired by a writing by Maurice Zermatten dedicated to the poet Ramuz: Come, says the Ocean and you will be free in the sky where the clouds wander... Climb up, says the mountain, and city laws, regulations, obligations will no longer be able to reach you. You will be like the first man, without ties, master of everything, of your time, of your gestures, of your thoughts, of your feelings... A revolutionary proclamation, this is what the landscape suggests to the poet, a landscape that has the taste of the divine, the sublime and freedom. We live in the time of a complex modernity, returning to the origins of a freer and more balanced world seems paradoxical. Nonetheless, the dream brings life and this small etching engraving retouched with drypoint, drawn on precious Bible paper, is dedicated to all those who vindicate their choice to sit on top of a (beautiful) column.
200.00 €
