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A horizontal fold is set in a square piece of white canvas. The outline of a second square is subsequently cut from the canvas surrounding
the fold.
This square is filled in with black oil pastel while the fold is kept closed. When the canvas is hung the fold falls open.
The lamination of the crayon on the canvas becomes visible when the fold has fallen open, revealing a piece of blank canvas and thereby
a segment of the original form.
This blank space also pulls the black square open into two segments. A duality of form arises. The sagging of the lowest part of the
square is visually reinforced by a twisting movement created by the gradual narrowing of the fold.
text Coosje van Bruggen - Maria van Elk: drawing 1973 - 1980, page 41
Broke surface (Verbroken oppervlak,1976)
Object - canvas & black oil pastel | 120 x 120 cm
collection Government Agency for Visual Art
exposition Galerie Waalkens 1977
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