L’INCONNU Amsterdam

House Artist 07 · Paint on paper

L’INCONNU Jules Cartier

Three colours and black are enough to build a city.

Construction with red sun, 1988. Gouache on paper.
LX-JC-001 · Construction with red sun · 1988

Jules Cartier paints with a ruler, a compass and a flat brush. His compositions look like plans for buildings that would only stand up in a painting: a red circle carrying bars of black, an arc holding it all in place.

For the House he painted a series in gouache on heavy paper. Each sheet is balanced like a structure, and each one is a little out of true, where the hand went past the ruler.

Gouache, flat brush, ruler. The edges are by hand.

Black wheel, 1988. Gouache on paper.
LX-JC-002 Black wheel · 1988
Blue counterweight, 1989. Gouache on paper.
LX-JC-003 Blue counterweight · 1989
Yellow, two arcs, 1989. Gouache on paper.
LX-JC-004 Yellow, two arcs · 1989
Red station, 1990. Gouache on paper.
LX-JC-005 Red station · 1990

House archive

  1. LX-JC-001Construction with red sun1988Gouache on paper
  2. LX-JC-002Black wheel1988Gouache on paper
  3. LX-JC-003Blue counterweight1989Gouache on paper
  4. LX-JC-004Yellow, two arcs1989Gouache on paper
  5. LX-JC-005Red station1990Gouache on paper