Above all, Devis Grebu is an artist of meaning. Whatever the artistic matter he employs, whatever the form, whatever the means or purpose of his art, Devis Grebu draws and redraws the world - not to highlight its beauty, but the better to contemplate it. To do so both in what it says and in what it hides; both in what it could say and what it would like to say. In the end, to contemplate what he, the artist, feels it ought to say. His gaze, when contemplating the world, in fact performs a reading. In everything he does, Devis Grebu is a passionate seeker of meaning. His line is febrile, for his intelligence is both ardent and meticulous, for all his drawings represent a decomposition of the world according to its most minute signs and unobserved insignia. Line and world combine in Grebu's drawings like the abstract and the figurative in pictographic writings, such that, once meaning has been extracted from the signs of the world by his mobile and avid eye, it is rewritten into the world by his restless hand with a writing overflowing with enormous and at times Homeric artistic verve. His art is not a visual reaction to the world; it is a rewriting of the world, a kind of continual palimpsest manifesto, in which his writing, through its beauty and intelligence, is always the most powerful. His drawings, through their meticulousness and something that exists beyond form (but this side of the logic of the lines), resemble writing. It is an extraordinary, irresistible rewriting of the writing of the world. Devis Grebu graphically besieges the events he addresses. He is a brilliant strategist in the conquest of meaning, achieved by bringing victoriously to their knees all the different meanings reality appeared to possess, before taking aim at it and then, after conquering it, possession of it. He stands before reality as did most likely Demetrius Poliorcetes, the brilliant strategist, before the city he was about to besiege. Poliorcetes, the besieger of cities, made them one with the earth. Devis Grebu, the besieger of meaning, makes reality one with his meaning. Devis Grebu is an artist who fundamentally reinvents the event and who, leaving no means of escape, besieges the opportunity provided by the spectacle that is the world, an artist who rewrites every graphic formulation of the world in his own meticulous and hieroglyphic writing. Viewing his art, you have the impression of reading the world. Revisiting it, you have the joyous feeling of rewriting it.