The innovations of Daan Noppen bring a curious new charge to the art of pencil drawing. His still life and portrait drawings are not only astonishingly detailed, but are scaled to an enormous size. Breathing life into his subjects, he endows them with soulful presences that are indubitably palpable. However, if you look closely at each piece, a new intricacy reveals itself. He has utilized mathematical equations in between the lines of his drawings; relating the immaterial nature of the human presence to his inquest into the logic of our reality. “I rather wanted these ideas to be a vehicle, to magnify the emotions that the characters express in my drawings. The geometry you see in my work visually represents higher dimensions that we normally don’t register as a physical entity, like time for example.” Recent works … Continue reading Interview with Daan Noppen: Where Substance and Ethers Converge