Maxim Van Cauwenberge

My day starts with knacking. Sinking sheets under the knife, knack into two, four, eight, thirteen pieces. Each has its skin with pores, beauty spots as well as scars. Tiny scratches dictate how I will make my lines dance. Then the knife down again, this time in the guise of a needle. A moment digging into its silence as cries muffled beneath black plains. Clear for the right look. Then pressing it through again, popping and bobbing under the press. Its place claimed, its frame pressed into the heart of the paper. A frame that is the next cut again. A frame of a window showing glimpses of my daily gaze. Endless images in their fragmented nature both show my world and offer a seat for the next viewer who wants to venture in. Yet in respect, for both his solitude and his craft, I chose to present them here pressed together in this book. As a nod to graphics and his dictatorship within books as well as both the space, he is allowed to take. On that endless white surface, a solitary black square conducting what an etching should be.

Bio

Maxim Van Cauwenberge (1998, Belgium) obtained his Master's degree in Graphics at Luca School of Arts Ghent in 2022.

Currently works and lives in Brussels.

Received an honourable mention in 2021 at The Art Competition: Graphics.