Art on Paper : Hanging today
For Julien SERVE, whose drawings are simultaneously shown at Art on Paper and published today inIVORY HONEY, the hand is an essential subject and object of his art, his primary model as well as his beloved tool. For Art on Paper, Serve offers these intimate drawings as well as his latest color aquarelles: hands and mushrooms, reminiscent of the morel harvests he used to go for as a child, together with his grand father. The sensuality of the aquarelles leaves any interpretation of their beauty to the viewer’s imagination.
“The hand and its unlimited possibilities is a condition of civilization. It’s also the first part of the body that touches the other; it is the primary intersection between society and intimacy. The hand thinks, builds, connects, feels, breathes,“, writes Julien Serve.
In IVORY HONEY, OH MY HANDS is dedicated to Julien Serve.
I don’t know what to do with my hands
Hold my baby hold my body
Touch your face or touch your cock
I don’t know what to do with my hands
Plunge my thumbs into your eyes
And caress your brain from inside
Cook witchy potions with the right one
Write bad stories with the left one
I don’t know what to do with my hands
Hide them in my bottomless pockets
Hide them in your pocketless bottom
Or walk on them, hand by hand
Cut them off and write with my eyes
Cut them off and worship my wrists
Then finally everybody could grasp
How handicapped I am
