Ans Nys

Studies

Wijsbegeeerte, Ugent, 1999-2002
Lerarenopleiding Kask, 1997
Master Vrije Kunsten (Vrije Grafiek), 1992-1996

Onderzoekstopics

Kunstfilosofie met als bijzondere focus op de 18de en 19de eeuw (Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Schlegel)
De akt van het tekenen
Confessional drawing (& poetry)
De geschiedenis en de theorieën over de praktijk van het tekenen
De verwantschappen tussen tekenen en schrijven
Brieven, briefromans, briefgedichten
lopend project: De brieftekening

Can drawings be letters? Is there anything like an epistolary drawing? Drawing and writing both originate in the physical gesture of the hand. Letters and drawings are seemingly direct and intimate ways of leaving behind thoughts and feelings on a piece of paper. As such, they don't necessarily figure as art. But quite often, both the drawing and the letter have been intended as a work of art. Keeping this in mind, this project wants to balance on the edge of fact and fiction, daily life and art, past and present, the analogue and the digital. A distinct quality of a letter is the fact it is addressed to someone, a quality drawings don't necessarily share. Although there exists something in the forgotten folds of art history 'il disegno per amore e non per obrigo'.

Publicaties

My Life and the Life of Others, Ans Nys, 2003
Th Ink, Reflections on Drawing, Sint-Lucas Gent, 2010
Drawing in - and outside - Writing, RGAP, UK, 2012
Acco Cahier Drawing in - and outside - Writing, KULeuven, 2012

Verantwoordelijkheden

Coördinator en docent Beeldonderzoek
Docent Tekenen
Scriptiebegeleiding
Lezingen The Drawing Incident
Lid van Onderzoeksgroep Art & Argument