People Ruin Paintings is the catalogue accompanying John Robinson’s solo exhibition at nodenaysteen, 14 February to 28 April 2026, curated by Hanna Ouaziz. The book is not simply a record of the exhibition: it is a structural extension of it, rendering the show’s formal logic legible for readers who were not present.
Five performances form its backbone — three on the opening night, distributed across the building’s three floors as a passage through Dante’s Hell, Purgatory and Heaven, and two that close the sequence. The book also holds The Finter Method, an instruction for automatic writing dated c. 1912–1920, a conversation between Robinson and Em. Prof. Freddy Decreus, Decreus’s essay On the Hermit Deep Within Us, the artist’s biography and the full list of thirty-one works.
The publication is in English, 44 pages, 170 × 240 mm. The complete interior can be browsed free of charge on denode.be, where the PDF is also a free download.
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