I thought this artist deserved a home here- on this page. Their own post.
I could’ve easily thrown it in with the numerous photo dumps I’ve burdened all of you with over the last two weeks- but that just wouldn’t do. I was too in awe to cloud this talent with anything else- even if it was breathtaking pictures of the sea- because for me, these works had the same effect.
Breathtaking.
You think I’m kidding… but I actually mean it. While wandering around the Louisiana Museum just north of Copenhagen, I saw these works through enormous sliding glass doors. As I entered, I began to admire, but when I stopped to read a little about who was behind (what I had thought was) the lens- I gasped.
No joke- like, actually out loud. Those around me could hear the sudden suck of air I took to fill my lungs- jaw dropped.
Those images above? Every single one you swipe through…? Looks like a photograph right? What a cool and classy photographer- I had thought. No one can go wrong with a black and white photo…
Except they weren’t photos. They aren’t.
Every single one of those is a charcoal drawing. I spent the next hour standing the closest I could to every single piece- trying to find evidence that a camera had not in fact captured what was before me, but instead a man’s bare hands.
His name is Roberts Longo. His goal? “To slow down the time that we live in.”
There was a video of him playing in one of the side rooms- discussing his art, his inspirations. At one point he expressed that he’s “interested in the emotional knowledge of things” and that he didn’t just want to illustrate. I liked that- the emotional knowledge of things. It makes you think.
And he was successful in that- if you were to ask me. The beauty and complexity of his work was/is remarkable and definitely worth the share.
