Klaus Verscheure Victims and Murderers

The question keeps coming: who’s who?

The new art folder Victims and Murderers contains real size prints of 16 carefully selected gouaches from Klaus Verscheure’s ongoing series Faces. Printed on fine 60g art paper in delicate duotone offset, they capture the perfect look and feel of the original gouache drawings in every single detail. The prints are collected in a sturdy folder of red cardboard with black linen spine and black foil print.

“The question keeps coming: who’s who? Who’s the victim and who’s the perpetrator. It’s even the main question people ask me when they see work from my (Smiling) Faces series. Even more when I tell them that all the portraits I make are either perpetrators or victims. But I always leave the question unanswered. It doesn’t matter who’s who, after all. Or does it? I make art. I am not a journalist, nor an archivist or a scientist, looking for explanations. I do what I do and reserve to myself the privilege of not sharing what I know: the answer to that question “who’s who”. It remains surprising to me how few people accept this.

Often they really try to live with the notknowing, but still, they can’t refrain from putting labels on my portraits. “That is an offender, you can see that immediately.” Or “it is obvious that this one is a victim”. Then they look at me, asking for confirmation. Alas... I prefer to leave everyone in the dark. After all, it doesn’t matter.”

– Klaus Verschuere

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Binding Hardcover folder

Measurements 420 x 290 mm

Weight 0,55 kg

Language EN / NL

Number of pages 20

€ 50,00 - ISBN 9789464002072