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The Inadequate Description series, started by Øystein Aasan in 2004, is characterized by “text based” works, whose subject is the word reported in the form of “distorted text by various means or rendered almost illegible”, or deflagrated into individual letters that occupy the work’s spatial grid. Reading become inadequate or unfulfilling: the emphasis is placed on the gesture and the specific method of accomplishment.
In the case of the two charcoal works Inadequate Descriptions, Uneyed no 2, 2021 and Inadequate Descriptions, Erdlicht, 2021, the artist follows a process that uses specific …