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20/4/2011

Two exhibitions

The Drawing Center, New York

Join us on Thursday, April 21 from 6-8pm for the Opening Reception for Drawing and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica and Paolo Canevari: Decalogo.

Drawing and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica will be on view in the Main Gallery from April 22–June 24, 2011. This landmark exhibition, co-organized with the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica (ING) in Rome, of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Italy, is comprised of fifty-nine rarely-exhibited engraved metal printing plates dating from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth century, culled exclusively from the collections of one of the world’s most important museums devoted to the Graphic Arts. Presenting the plates on their own, without the resultant prints, this exhibition advocates for a broadly conceived understanding of drawing that addresses several pressing issues in historical and contemporary art, including: the concept of the unique artwork, the translation of an original picture to an engraving, the presentation of unconventional media as drawing, and finally the role of the archive in preserving and disseminating history. Drawing and its Double will include important works by influential figures such as Giorgio Ghisi (1520–1582), Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964), Piero Dorazio (1927–2005), and Achille Perilli (b. 1927).

The exhibition is co-curated by ING curators Ginevra Mariani and Antonella Renzitti, and Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center.

Paolo Canevari: Decalogo will be on view in a specially designed Drawing Room located within the Main Gallery from April 22–June 24, 2011. This recent body of work by Paolo Canevari was originally commissioned and exhibited by the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica (ING) in Rome in October 2008. Comprised of ten large-scale etched plates, this presentation extends the thesis of the concurrent exhibition, Drawing and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, by displaying plates without their resultant prints. Decalogo, the Italian shorthand for the Ten Commandments and perhaps the most well-known social contract or “rules to live by,” continues Canevari’s investigation into how dynamic imagery can reveal political and social crises. Although these plates have been used to create a series of prints, Canevari conceived them as artworks themselves. Once functional, they now have bent edges and are mounted to the wall, nullifying their potential to be archived or reprinted. Each work depicts an iconic image mined from Canevari’s visual lexicon and from his previous work in video and installation. The plates reverberate on both technical and emotional levels, and lay bare the artist’s acute and perceptive understanding of our times.

Co-curated by ING curator, Antonella Renzitti and Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center.

Drawing and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and Robert Lehman Foundation. Additional support is provided by The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, C.G. Boerner LLC, New York, Vincent J. Buonanno, Arthur Ross Foundation and Harris Schrank.

Paolo Canevari: Decalogo is made possible in part by members of the Drawing Room, a patron circle founded to support innovative exhibitions presented in The Drawing Center’s project gallery: Devon Dikeou and Fernando Troya, Rhiannon Kubicka, Judith Levinson Oppenheimer, Elizabeth R. Miller and James G. Dinan, Maartje Elisabeth Oldenburg, The Speyer Family Foundation, Inc., Louisa Stude Sarofim, and Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee.

In conjunction with Drawing and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica and Paolo Canevari: Decalogo, The Drawing Center will publish an expanded edition in the Drawing Papers series. The publication will be 182 pages in length and will feature 70 color plates, as well as texts by Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, Antonella Maria Fusco, Director of the ING, and curators Ginevra Mariani and Antonella Renzitti.

Image: Paolo Canevari, Hanging Around, from the Decalogo series, 2008. Etched copper and dry-point, nickel-plated, 55 x 35 x 3/4 inches (set of ten). Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Christian Stein, Milan.

For further information and images, please contact
Emily Gaynor Public Relations and Marketing Officer 212 219 2166 x119 | egaynor@drawingcenter.org

Press Preview: Thursday, April 21, 5:00–6:00pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 21, 6:00–8:00pm

The Drawing Center
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Hours are Wednesday, 12pm–6pm, Thursday, 12pm–8pm, and Friday–Sunday, 12pm–6pm
(closed Mondays and Tuesdays).

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