YANN KEBBI
3 FOIS PAR JOUR, 2023

”Yann Kebbi frenetically draws the passers-by of New York, whose streets he walked in summer. The book reproduces the entire series of pen-and-ink drawings in a format identical to the originals. These two weeks of wandering are condensed into a one-way journey in and around the B line of the New York subway, which starts in the Bronx and runs along Central Park West.

His stolen works, plucked from reality in the manner of stolen photos, celebrate the speed and bustle of New York and pay homage to the vertigo of its architecture. Here, Yann Kebbi describes several ways of inhabiting the city, contrasting its frenetic pace with a contemplative slowness. No crowds this time, but close-up views akin to the portraits he occasionally publishes in the New York Review of Books.

Yann Kebbi's rapid sketches are an almost obsessive collection of singular features.

He sometimes draws standing up, waiting for the light to turn green, most of the time with music on his headphones. These scenes of everyday life are thrown onto paper with the fear of spoiling spontaneity with refinement. Perhaps also before being spotted: all these images have the air of being stolen, snatched from reality in the manner of Vivian Maier's stolen photos or the videos of John Wilson, the brilliant documentarist of the New York absurd.”
(Publisher’s note)

128 pages
24 x 32 cm

STATE: VERY GOOD