Thierry De Cordier
NADA, Painter’s notes I & II

Part manifesto, part intellectual inquiry, NADA brings together two volumes of Thierry De Cordier’s reflections on his eponymous paintings, born from an act of erasure: the symbolic annihilation of the image of Christ on the Cross. Presented together in a specially designed slipcase, the two volumes trace an evolving inquiry into absence, memory and the sublime. Through personal recollections and philosophical musings, De Cordier examines the paradox of nothingness—how the removal of an image can evoke something beyond absence. Wrestling with the necessity of discussing his own work, he questions the weight of religious symbolism, the limitations of interpretation, and the pursuit of an art that seeks to move beyond representation.