Drawing is the beginning of everything
dal 17/9/2004 al 8/11/2004
Segnalato da
17/9/2004
Drawing is the beginning of everything
Galerie Davide Di Maggio, Berlin
This exhibition features more than fifty works on paper by internationally renowned artists from different generations, following a dual red thread that is evident both in the exhibition design and in the compilation of the catalogue.
''The drawing copies what remains of a vision. - observed Alberto Giacometti - What I think is that, regardless of whether we are talking about painting or sculpture, in the end it is the drawing that matters. If one were to master drawing to some extent, everything else would be possible.... Drawing is the beginning of everything''
Unlike other art forms based on the poetic of the definitive, drawing owes its strength to its precarious and fragile nature, starting from the lightness of the support. In other words the drawing does not seek a coherence linked to an idea of the fixed world, blocked in an ideology, but yields to doubt, distraction, thus keeping in check the concept of art that the world has ratified, complicating it and posing objections.
This exhibition features more than fifty works on paper by internationally renowned artists from different generations, following a dual red thread that is evident both in the exhibition design and in the compilation of the catalogue.
Taking inspiration from an intuition of art historian Alberto Boatto, who spoke about the differences existing between the use of a sign against a white background, a clear conceptual dominion, and a sign against a black background, visceral, expressionist and thus pictorial, Drawing is the beginning of everything, presents an analysis of both trends, that become part of a very vast area of invention, that at the same time becomes a sphere of reflecting and imagining.
C. Accardi, D. Baechler, J.M. Basquiat, F. Baumgartner, A. Bittente, A. Boetti, J. Brown, G.Matta Clark, E. Cucchi, G. De Dominicis, Delphy and Payne, M. Dzama, D. Faraldo, N.Farber, F. gilberti, F+T Gilman, M. Kaufmann, W. Kentridge, M. Kostabi, A. Mondino, J. Kounellis, S. Lewitt, G. Manfredini, B. Meerman, M. Merz, L. Ontani, T. Oursler, M. Paladino, G. Paolini, P. Pascali,G. Penone, R. Pettibon, C. Rama, B. Roig, Tal R, D. Salle, Salvo, Lee Ufan, W. Vaccari, N. Verlato, W. Vostell, W. Wegman e G. Zorio.
Berlin
Galerie Davide Di Maggio
Torstrasse, 138