I don't know either by Jan Hovers

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Nescio - I don't know either
2021 - linocut | original size 24×24 cm | 1 print run

In Latin, Nescio means I don't know. Those words - as simple as they are comforting - connect me to the writer who chose them as a pseudonym. Because who does know?
This linocut does not try to solve that, but rather to acknowledge it: the not-knowing as an essential part of being human. The rough traces of the linoleum and the irregular layer of ink were allowed to remain visible; they reflect the frayed edges of life itself. Nothing is smooth, nothing is perfect, and precisely therein lies the truth of the image.

I am a great lover of Nescio. I spent part of my school days at the Linnaeushof in Amsterdam East, where J.H.F. Grönloh - the man behind the pseudonym - lived for a long time. I am from 1958, so our lives did not cross, but the place breathes his spirit.
Every time I return there, I feel something of that slight wistfulness that hangs in his work: the wonder at the ordinary, the sense of time, the longing for something that remains unattainable.

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About Jan Hovers

I am a visual artist and musician. In my work, I create parallel worlds as refuge from the everyday - places where memory, dream and imagination converge.
My lino prints, paintings, music and podcasts form spherical stories where past and present intertwine. I use my own experiences,.. Read more…

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