"There are no tyrannies that would not try to limit art, because they can see the power of art. Art can tell the world things that cannot be shared otherwise. It is art that conveys feelings."

 - Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine 

Jan Cox

©Courtesy Archief De Zwarte Panter, Antwerpen
Visual Thinking Expressed in Words, 1938
Text , 1 p

Visual Thinking Expressed in Words, a typescript by Jan Cox.

This enigmatic text from the archives of De Zwarte Panter gallery, combines intensity, physical experience and elements of actual perception in a manner that resonates with Cox's oeuvre.  Below in capital letters we have 'PICASSO', as though he would be the author or source of inspiration.  Above stands "2.2" and "38".  The text benefits from another short passage in English that thematizes the tension between freedom - often spoken of, little present - and security, decision and verdict.  This also leads the soothsayer to transmit the message instead of tossing the coffee-grounds in the face of the client.  Both texts were kept together in a plastic folder, along with a 1966 article from the Boston Globe, where comics were praised as the right space for art in an era when it had become abstract and incomprehensible, with Picasso at the pinnacle.