1986 B Philippe Van Snick lives and works in Schaerbeek, Brussels. Note by Ph.Van Snick :
The egg is open Manzoni gave it Marcel broke it Irreversible [Translated from Dutch, archive Ph.V.S., Brussels, c. 1986]
Another note :
With days and nights it is not their figuration that interests me. But the alternation of day & night—and of continuity —10 days 10 nights determine the infinity of the continuity. 0 9 is a closed system that I determined, dedicated to the nature of things making of a worldview. Through alternation understanding emerges ? hence different colors ? like—it goes on, then it stops ? (not eager to go to bed, not eager to get up) All days the same and different and also of nights. In the project of destabilization of monochromes There is the monochrome Day & night. The monochrome believed to escape the time !? (sic) [Translated from Dutch and last three lines from French, archive Ph.V.S., Brussels, c. 1986] R In a sketchbook of 1985-1989, quotation written down c. 1986
[157] Zonder titel, 1986
and taken from Histoire de l’œil of G. Bataille (a sunspot) : What remains before us is only an empty window, rectangular hole piercing the black night, one day opening to our tired eyes a world made through lightning and the crack of dawn. [Translated from French, archive Ph.V.S., Brussels]
Note in archive, c. 1986, from Georges Bataille : L’expérience intérieure : In the night, there is nothing but night. [Translated from French, archive Ph.V.S., Brussels] H / Note in archive : T W from 0 to 9
all the numbers so infinite possibilities mathematics : because mathematics well expresses the approach of the infinite
[Translated from Dutch, archive Ph.V.S., Brussels]
— Beuys – Broodthaers, 1986 [203, 295] : 12 oak frames, 12 × (40 × 30 cm), vinyl paint on cardboard, photocopies. Ph. Van Snick realizes this work in response to the death
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Chronology
1980 -1989