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- Hannes Postma (Haarlem, 1933)
"Viewed from up close, it is not that nice what happens to the people in Hannes Postma's drawings. At the very least, they are stretched into a kind of rolls, or compressed into packages of arms and legs. They are always in violent turmoil, rising up, floating or are shot across the surface, collide, get involved in explosions and are divided into strips by surfaces with sharp edges. Their hands and feet let go, multiply and fly into space. Their heads turn into balloons, which fly some distance away expand into bodies again. They collide with all kinds of cosmic furniture (shelves, chests, coat hangers, hats, undulating earth crusts) that makes space unsafe... Of course it is not without significance that Hannes Postma composes with shapes that evoke our own world and not with circles and squares. His space is a real space, although near and far have become interchangeable, an immense space in which the earth appears fragmentary... The events, the sharp edges concern us through the drawn flesh. On a visible stream of color, wordless balloons blow out of our field of vision like clouds of smoke or drops of blood. The boxes contain surprises (and not just nice ones, Postma calls them Pandora's boxes), embryos, pieces of landscape and water; perhaps they are also shelters. Helpless little people hang before the cosmic authority of enormous coats and hats, in a world in which everything, including themselves, is at the same time themselves and something else or at least in the process of becoming something else." Hannes Postma is an image maker, someone who when a magician summons people and spaces. But he is also a viewer of those images himself, who watches all the struggling with some irony and is able to joke with a mysterious one. Without imposing his personality on us, he speaks a very personal language." This is partly evident from the title, Hocus Focus. The title and the lithographs are a clear statement in which new insight is created through a small intervention. Postma associates a new word meaning, the language is living matter. The title is 'a pun'. The traditional spell is 'hocus pocus pilatus pas', where the trick is that something briefly disappears or appears. It is the sensation of the curtain opening, the story begins and the tension of the moment of wonder with a transformative power is felt. The first lithograph further states: "two is infinitely one in focus". Focus means focal point or something like mental focus. However, it is used as the word 'attention' Attention is: focusing the perception on one point. By using the word 'focus' the emphasis is no longer on what the mind itself does, but on the subject on which attention is focused, the 'focal point'. In the rhyming Hocus Focus, Postma changes the meaning slightly (in just one letter) and resolutely to the focal point, the magical moment of wonder of Hocus and Focus in its infinity. (Artzaanstad)
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