The drawing project

Vamiali, Athens

An exhibition dedicated to drawing. Like a celebration of the drawing, this project features more than 35 works of 20 artists from 14 countries. In times where digital image is a dominant culture, (easy for all of us), back to drawing seems just a reverie. Is any artist out there who never but never used drawing to describe, prepare, proceed or propose an actual piece of work? The drawing is the point of reference for proposed or accomplished works, it could become the actual work or just indicates the way to it.

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Participating artists:
Diann Bauer (USA), Nayland Blake (USA), Dustin Ericksen (USA), Maria Finn (Sweden), Moyna Flannigan (Scotland), Liam Gillick (UK), Sophie Von Hellermann (Germany), Taraneh Hemami (Iran), Lothar Hempel (Germany), Paul Hosking (UK), Eleni Kamma (Greece), DeAnna Maganias (Greece), Group Mel-air (China, Egypt, New Zealand), Philippe Parreno (Algeria -France), Socratis Socratous (Cyprus), Lee Triming (UK), Richard Woods (UK), Johan Zetterquist (Sweden).

The DRAWING PROJECT is an exhibition dedicated to drawing. Like a celebration of the drawing, this project features more than 35 works of 20 artists from 14 countries.

In times where digital image is a dominant culture, (easy for all of us), back to drawing seems just a reverie. Is any artist out there who never but never used drawing to describe, prepare, proceed or propose an actual piece of work? The drawing is the point of reference for proposed or accomplished works, it could become the actual work or just indicates the way to it. Sketch, design, proposal, note or study deserve our attention once more. It is the human line and is alive.

The participants artists approached their works in different ways. The works participating in this exhibition are broadly diverse, they vary in technique, medium, size and imagery but they share a common impulse. From the proposals for constructions and installations of Ericksen, Hosking, Maganias or Hemami to the human based water-colours or pencil drawings of Finn, Flannigan, Von Hellermann, Hempel, Zetterquist and Bauer, and from the studies with conceptual references of Blake, Triming and Mir to complex scenarios between narration and abstraction of Parreno, Group Mel-air, Socratous and Kamma, and to notes for public projects and performances of Gillick and Papaioannou (art director for the opening and closing ceremony of the Olympics Games, Athens 2004) the art presented in this exhibition refers more to the life around us (information, communication, narration, or description) conjure up new imaginary worlds.

Image: a work by Paul Hosking

Opening Saturday 27 March from 14 to 20

Wednesday - Saturday 14 - 20 or by appointment

vamiali's
Samou 1 Athens 104 38 (metro Metaxourgio Diligianni exit)
Greece (Hellas)
T - F + 30 210 5228968

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dal 6/9/2007 al 26/10/2007