Beveiliging van een transformator in een electra draad 1936

Wouter Cool made this photograph on paper, and it’s like two worlds colliding. On one side, there's a photograph of what looks like an electrical transformer, all utilitarian and functional against the sky. Then, on the other side, you have these minimal line drawings, like someone took a breath and just drew the essence of structure. I can imagine Wouter Cool, the artist, thinking about the relationship between the grid, literally the electrical grid, and the grid as an abstract idea in art. Did he approach the subject like Mondrian? What is the bare minimum needed to evoke a structure? How do you make the invisible visible? It's a dance between representation and abstraction, playing with the idea that even the most functional objects have an underlying design, a kind of hidden geometry.