Henri Georges Adam
Francis Alys
Auguste Anastasi
Pierre Ardouvin
Said Atek
Silvia Bachli
Patrice Balvay
Dirk Barendsz
Antoine Louis Barye
Paul Baudouin
Auguste Baussan
Leon Benouville
Jean Victor Bertin
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison
Michel Blazy
Pierre Bonnard
Nancy Brooks Brody
Damien Cadio
Alexandre Calame
Adolphe Felix Cals
Eugene Carriere
Theodore Caruelle d'Aligny
Cham Henri Michel Antoine Chapu
Gaston Chaissac
Francois Chiffart
Francis Caudron
Franciska Clausen
Palcido Costanzi
Henri Edmond Cross
Dominique de Beir
Alexandre Gabriel Decamps
Eugene Delacroix
Delalande Herve Delamare
Guillaume Dege
Mirtha Dermisache
Mark Dion
Helmut Dorner
Raoul Dufy
Jakob Gautel
Sebastiano Galeotti
Jean Pierre Germain
Luca Giordano
Romain Grenon
Fabrice Gygi
Thomas Huber
Il Volterano (Baldassarre Franceschini)
Moise Jacobber
Asger Jorn
Henri Lehmann
Isabelle Levenez
Samuel Martin
Charles Monnet
Francoise Pace
Javier Perez
Chloe Piene
Benoit Pierre
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etienne Pressager
Jorge Queiroz
Francois Auguste Ravier
Anne Marie Schneider
Nancy Spero
Giambattista Tiepolo
Kees Van Dongen
Catharina van Eetevelde
Francois Andre Vincent
Wolf Vostel
Veronique Souben
Diederik Bakhuys
Annette Haudiquet
Agnes Werly
The exhibition focuses on bringing together works from different periods and horizons in order to explore similarities and connections and sharp, significant contrasts, from a technical perspective.
Curated by: Véronique Souben, Diederik Bakhuÿs, Annette Haudiquet, Agnès Werly.
The exhibition, which occupies both floors of the Frac Haute-Normandie building, focuses on bringing together works from different periods and horizons in order to explore similarities and connections and sharp, significant contrasts, from a technical perspective. The different combinations that appear in the exhibition highlight the line, rendering, medium, the importance of the format and the tenor of the artist's form of expression. They also raise a series of questions with regard to concepts relevant to this medium, such as the space on the paper, the importance of line, the continued use of washes, the omnipresence of fragments, the implications and challenges of tachism, the relationship to the model, the unfinished work, etc. This technical approach provides an opportunity to investigate where the dividing line is drawn between sketches, studies and works and, above and beyond our concepts of periods and styles, the status and aesthetic role of this process yesterday and today.
In response to a perceived dislocation, empowerment and liberalisation in contemporary drawing, the exhibition—in the same way as the symposium—sets out to question and put into perspective the evolution of these challenges and strategies by displaying both old and contemporary works that do not fit into specific categories or sit with prevalent ideas on drawing. Accordingly, the exhibition seeks to scramble the tracks between periods and styles, in order to the subvert the way we look at and perceive works of art and their context, and to explore different frames of reference.
In order to break free of the notion that old drawings are attendant to a work in the making, while contemporary drawings—in their emancipation—have become works in their own right, the exhibition "Drawing in the Making" meshes periods, genres, leading artists and lesser-known names, with the primary aim of showing distinguishing drawings from an artist's or period's output.
Image: Tom Molloy, Doubt, 2012. Drawing
Press Contact:
Chloé Palau: chloe.palau.frachn@orange.fr
Opening: Friday 13 February, 6:30pm
Frac Haute-Normandie
3, place des Martyrs-de-la-Résistance
76300 Sotteville-lès-Rouen
France