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“What kinds of bones are proper for priming pictures; how to make a pen for the purpose of drawing; how to begin to paint pictures; how to colour water, or a river, with or without fish; how to paint a wounded person; how you should regulate your manner of living so as to preserve decorum and keep your hand in proper condition […] and how you should select and draw a figure in relief[1]; why women should abstain from using medicated waters on their skin”[2]… These are but a few examples of advice to painters in a fifteenth-century treatise written in the early Renaissance by Cennino Cennini.[3]
A copy of this book is used by artist Pamela Brandt (1950, Finland) as an instrument to release a bumblebee found in her studio in the film by Georg Grotenfelt presented here in the basement. Read today, Cennini’s treatise can feel at once authoritative and oddly performative: a compilation of practical instruction that occasionally borders on the absurd. Here, the book, albeit an incidental…
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“What kinds of bones are proper for priming pictures; how to make a pen for the purpose of drawing; how to begin to paint pictures; how to colour water, or a river, with or without fish; how to paint a wounded person; how you should regulate your manner of living so as to preserve decorum and keep your hand in proper condition […] and how you should select and draw a figure in relief[1]; why women should abstain from using medicated waters on their skin”[2]… These are but a few examples of advice to painters in a fifteenth-century treatise written in the early Renaissance by Cennino Cennini.[3]
A copy of this book is used by artist Pamela Brandt (1950, Finland) as an instrument to release a bumblebee found in her studio in the film by Georg Grotenfelt presented here in the basement. Read today, Cennini’s treatise can feel at once authoritative and oddly performative: a compilation of practical instruction that occasionally borders on the absurd. Here, the book, albeit an incidental…
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