Ape Culture Fourteen Nineteen Using an automatic drawing method

Using an automatic drawing method called frottage (developed by Max Ernst in the 1920s) these rubbings were created using sheets of drawing paper and a selection of colored graphite sticks

Ayrton Senna is absorbed in thought

a confused game began between the master

Nieves (Zurich)

Ape Culture Fourteen Nineteen Using an automatic drawing methodApe Culture traces the long cultural and scientific obsession with humanitys closest relatives. In the Western historical representations of modernity, depictions of apes were traditionally used to show the absence of culture. Standing as a liminal figure separating humans and animals, the ape has, since ancient times, played a central role in the narrative of civilisational progress. This book, which appears in conjunction with the exhibition of the