Article: Pierre Klossowski at Zabriskie. (New York).

Pierre Klossowski's large-scale pencil drawings come out of a visual tradition predating the advent of modern media, when the image carried a world of symbolism, allusions and narrative information. The six drawings in this exhibition depict his literary characters in enigmatic erotic situations that dramatically extend the subject of his writings and refer back to his life. Le grand renfermement II (The Great Gathering II), 1988, a large page of sketches, gives us his intellectual and artistic influences: the black-and-white rendering of Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin and Child with Saint Anne juxtaposed with small portraits of his friends (Georges Bataille, Roland Barthes, ...

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