No Man's Land
2001
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2001
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
No Man's Land is a 2001 by Neil Wenman, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
No Man's Land is a drawing by Neil Wenman. It's an architectural drawing. The drawing was inspired by Wenman's visit to Berlin, where he met Herman Koch, a former member of the Stasi. This encounter led to the concept of mapping Berlin's history in a single drawing. To learn more about the techniques used in this drawing, look up the technique of stippling.
The work consists of a horizontal landscape format created on multiple sheets, each cut in various places and suspended one behind another within a deep, double-sided frame. The sheets behind the outer layers are visible through the rectangular apertures, arranged in horizontal, parallel lines with varying spacing, surrounded by wide margins of white card. Some drawn lines, including broken ones, are part of the image, and dark, grey-black swirling patterns appear in the larger cut-away areas. A single wider aperture is positioned slightly left of center below the clustered rectangular…
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Neil Wenman makes stark, unflinching drawings of modern war zones. His pencil lines map the jagged edges of conflict in works like *No Man’s Land* (2001). There are no medals or heroics, just the raw geometry of…
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