Art Gallery Of Ontario

9. Untitled (Coma Berenices) series

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Synopsis

Nancy Lim: In 1973, Celmins rented a house in a small New Mexico town and was looking every night at the night sky. So it was a combination of that experience with finding satellite pictures of the Coma Berenices and Cassiopeia constellations that resulted in this series. Vija Celmins: These are kind of places that really don't exist except in your mind because we have only seen them in photographs. You can see that there is a central event that I sometimes veer toward, but most of them are fields. For a while I thought I would try to put an event in like a little comet, but I was not so satisfied with that. I was building up a lot of graphite on the paper and moving into loving the graphite more than the image. I think you see, looking at the graphite that I get denser and denser and denser with it. What I did here is, these drawings are all additions, and the white is all the paper. I don't really think of them as stars. I mean, they’re stars, but not stars. I think of them like undetonated kind of