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SERIES OF DRAWINGS / RELATED INSTALLATIONS
| THEY CALLED ME A DRAWER (POSSIBILITIES ARE LIMITED)
This series is born from the artist's liminal state temporarily living and working in a foreign environment and experiencing the world through the uncanny filter of a foreign language and culture. 2013. See more... |
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| S_T_I_L_L_E
The Lorm deafblind manual alphabet is used to form the German word "Stille" (Engl.: silence) and is related to the circumstances under which art is being produced and reviewed. 2012. See more... |
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| DIABELLI
Focusing on the artist and his relationship to the audience an artist book with 50 ink drawings and a text by Swiss author Hermann Burger was published by Harpune Verlag. 2011. See more... |
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| PLACES TO RECALL
A place to recall, a spot that serves to assure oneself of one's own role, is the stage for Moussa Kone as well as the drawing and the exhibition.
As a treshold between artist and audience both become accessible and make it possible for the spectator to experience the moment of watching himself performing. 2010.
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| EN POINTE (SWITCH LEGS, LEFT UP, AROUND, AND REACH)
In these drawings dancers balance to abstract, simple geometric shapes. The characters are treated like the forms as an abstract design element.
The human body as a social construct, the training as the physical input leading to its final definitions, between culture and nature. 2009-2010.
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| DIARY DRAWINGS
Confronted with the task of completing a drawing per day for a period that lasted several months, Kone created extra scope for himself by exchanging his otherwise thoroughly composed, conceptual approach for a flexible,
experimental one. 2009.
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| PIECES OF SILENCE
Drawings on paper, objects and large wall drawings form an installation, based on the central, large drawing of a garden scene. The central theme was a kind of vanitas-motif,
with the trees and plants in the drawings getting cut and reworked into other shapes and forms. 2009.
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| RESETTING/PHANTASANA (CURTAIN FALLS)
This installation centers around a large ink drawing in the form of a triptych which provides a view of a circus arena.
Several elements from the drawings have been transferred to the exhibition space as 3D objects. Consequently, the gallery space
has been turned into an arena which functions like an accessible drawing. 2008.
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| HYDRA HEADS
I am your tiger! Small series of tamed and wild carnivors, all in form of a diptychon. 2008.
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| DOWN THE BACKSTREETS (DEAD END/YOGA)
In this series, Moussa Kone engages with the way circus animals are trained in comparison to the physical conditioning undergone in dance
training and goes on to apply these to conditioning in a social context. 2008.
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| CRISIS
Large scale drawings which consist of many parts. There is an opposition between one single, lost character and a huge mass of lines.
The harlequin stands for the creative, artistic approach facing the various critical situations. 2007-2008.
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| MISCELLANEOUS
Mixed old stuff. 2006-2007.
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