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To Evru, the books, notebooks, diaries, sheets or even the small cartons in which he draws every day without rest are so essential in his career as the fact of breathing. Through them, creation and life, fantasy and reality, take shape and manifest themselves in the most direct way possible. Since his beginnings, with the First Book Enemy Myself (1968-1971), the list of author books and notebooks has been numerous and exceptional, as evidenced by the fact that the first exhibition dedicated to him at the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona in 1989, after having exhibited "Les Magiciens de la Terre" – which was organized by the Pompidou Museum in Paris – was devoted to this omnipresent and flowing aspect of his artistic career: "The Books of Zush". In this case, Evru presents us the work that he has been doing in the last years through the dialogue that he has established with other artists, friends and colleagues in the long space of the leporello. Coming from the Eastern tradition, the leporellos are formed in a role of paper that unfolds like an accordion, which can be drawn on both sides and whose fundamental element is the continuity of the discourse that extends in space. Evru starts this new adventure by the hand of his friend Jean Willo, the artist of Swiss origin who currently resides in Ibiza, and with whom he reunited in his sixtieth birthday in 2005. |
It was from this meeting, that the project of making a book "with four hands" came up. Afterwards, Feliz Waske, another Austrian friend and artist – and also resident in Ibiza - would join them, and with who they would continue to dialogue through the unfolding sheet of the leporello. |
The result of this collaboration is a series of notebooks that, in addition to being a testimony of the friendship and complicity between the three artists, constitute a unique work in the contemporary artistic panorama. Each notebook is the result of a dialogue, of a conversation that extends in time and space, and that is captured in the pages of the leporello. |
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