An Exhibition of Monotypes by

STEFAN ARTENI

Scroll Fragments
Kobe Art Hall

Japan
(March 17-23, 1999)

2010
 The splendor of the simple.

Only image formed keeps the vision.

Yet image formed rests in the poem.

How could cheerfulness stream

through us if we wanted to shun sadness?

Pain gives of its healing power

where we least expect it.

Martin Heidegger
Time, Myth, Memory, a set of four horizontal scrolls

Heeding the Signs

Presence and Absence
Tracks of the Unknown One
Markings and Revelation
 Mnemosyne is the "Mother of the Muses."
Memory signifies abiding with myth, stepping onto
the path of essential signs and symbols.
It is what is said primordially, what is indicated
by marking off forms.
Even discontinuous, scattered, broken, effaced,
crossed out recollection is still legible.
To be sure, the danger of remembering is disclosed by
walking the path, the path itself being the way of recalling.
"For as you began, so you will remain," writes Hölderlin.

We are a sign that is not read.

We feel no pain, we almost have
Lost our tongue in foreign lands.

Friedrich Hölderlin
Telling
Signs
Untitled
Mural
Fragment
Wall
With
Figures
Scattered
Fragments
Spaces
on the Wall
Study for
Wall Painting
Myth Recollected
Composition
for a
Mural
Study
for
a
Mural
 The heavenly powers
Cannot do all things. It is the mortals
Who reach sooner into the abyss. So the turn is
With these. Long is
The time, but the true comes into
Its own.

Friedrich Hölderlin
The Gathering That Recalls, a set of three horizontal scrolls

Darkening
The Destitute Time
Primal Oneness