Kop van een man 1906 - 1945

Reijer Stolk made this drawing, Head of a Man, with a pencil on paper. It's a real scribble of lines, like he's trying to find the face hiding in the paper. The texture is all in those marks, nervous and quick. You can almost feel the artist's hand moving, searching. The paper itself is like a field, and these marks are like the first tracks across it. Look at the way the lines around the eyes are darker, more insistent. It's like Stolk really wants us to see something there, a glimpse of what he sees. Then, at the bottom, there’s this patch of almost architectural hatching, which feels so different from the rest of the face. It reminds me a bit of Twombly, that same feeling of something emerging, but never quite solidifying. It’s like the drawing is a conversation, full of starts and stops and second thoughts. Art's not about answers, it's about the questions we ask along the way.