1958
gouache
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1958 gouache by Brion Gysin, depicting Writing, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see forty-eight sheets of paper taped together in a long, wobbly line. Each sheet has quick black ink scribbles and blotches of colored gouache—like someone testing markers on scrap paper. Gysin made this in a single night, working fast to keep up with his own ideas. The scribbles feel like handwriting you can’t read, or maybe a map of nowhere. It’s not a drawing of anything, just marks on paper. If you like the way the ink bleeds, look up gouache next.
Brion Gysin (19 January 1916 – 13 July 1986) was a British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices.
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