Caniscope

Published by Editions B42

Caniscope is a collection of 45 portraits of dogs drawn by Jochen Gerner with KOH-INOOR bicolour pencils (blue and red), on old bar notebooks, in a furtive gesture of note-taking and graphic experimentation, from May 2021 to February 2022. Leaving aside felt-tip pens with pigmented Indian ink in favour of a clear, uncluttered line, sublimated by the famous two-tone television pencils, Caniscope examines the canine question in a radically different style: ghostly silhouettes adorned with two round eyes, creeping profiles held on a leash, hairy heads punctuated by a nose…