Bought by Mudam in 2007, the series of sixteen drawings by Simon Jacquard (1968, Milan) unveils a sensitive and poetic universe that casts an offbeat and amused glance at our everyday environment, somewhat like a mood log. The artist’s special humour merely deflects the threat of disaster that runs as a common theme through his drawings. Spanning personal and universal, monotonous and spectacular, banal and philosophical, sketches and flitting around, his hand travels over paper in a very direct manner, without detours or flourishes. Figures, situations and manuscript texts read like aphorisms, yet when glanced at rapidly they elicit deeper thoughts.