Mark Manders

"For me, drawing is more an investigation of thought than an investigation of observation. Before I’ve drawn them, the drawings are often as short and compact as thought. It’s interesting to look at yourself from the outside as you are drawing and see how the thoughts you portray are partly visual and partly linguistic…"

Manders has been working on his Self-portrait as a building since 1986—an ongoing investigation that evolves with each subsequent presentation. The “building” itself is a fictional architecture created as a portrait of a fictional persona sharing the artist’s name and described by the artist as equally neurotic and poetic…

Installationviews

Figure with Fake Square Pencil Point’ and many other works online

Self Portrait as a Building