HENRI MICHAUX.(art exhibition)(Brief Article)

Looking at Henri Michaux's drawings, I can't help but think of D.W. Winnicott's squiggle games. The pediatrician-psychoanalyst would draw a line on a piece of paper, his young patient would draw one in response, and so on, until some image or other appeared. The point was to break the ice of the child's unconscious, to let the slush pour forth in vivid associations and waking dreams.

So it is with Michaux: One mark leads to another in drawings that are best understood as reflexive attempts to find a self that is not always there, that sometimes. surfaces as if distorted in a dark ...

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