a 5 years old kid got closed in the darkness of car garage
over the weekend,
his eyes got used at the lightlessness
fearless and comfortable, almost bored past 26 hours smudgeing the room with shoepolish
asked for a sandwich and a life with time for drawings.
Today, 40 years later, pm00 or
Paul Mennea is a visual artist dedicated at illustration and storytelling
and he lives with a vigorous ansiety the drawings. *
In his shows the act of drawing reach a climax, in which the action goes in and out from decoration to smudgeing, from gesture to ordered lines.
After is drawings the space seems as before, but better visible.
The shoe shine show comes after a chat with the UMBRELLA's man Dan Hernandez, and it is a public view in a private space.
