I Walk the Line
dal 15/3/2009 al 23/5/2009
Segnalato da
Vernon Ah Kee
Lionel Bawden
Sky Bivens
Kirsty Bruce
Eugene Carchesio
Sadie Chandler
Sharon Goodwin
Peter Grziwotz
Patrick Hartigan
Gordon Hookey
Jess Johnson
Locust Jones
Maria Kontis
Cassandra Laing
Tim Silver
Richard Lewer
James Lynch
Gabriella Mangano
Silvana Mangano
John Vella
Laith McGregor
Sebastian Moody
James Morrison
Dorota Mytych
Elvis Richardson
Vin Ryan
John Turier
Michelle Ussher
Gosia Wlodarczak
15/3/2009
I Walk the Line
Museum of Contemporary Art - MCA, Sydney
New Australian Drawing. The exhibition features 29 contemporary artists from across the nation. It extends beyond the 'traditional' definition of drawing, to include works addressing both the practice and nature of the drawing medium. The show explores a range of different approaches to contemporary drawing, encompassing both two- and three-dimensional works, cell animation, performance and video.
Sydney Australia: This autumn, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) celebrates the
reinvigoration of drawing in Australia with a new exhibition featuring 29 contemporary
artists from across the nation.
Drawing is currently enjoying a renaissance in contemporary art circles, having
been embraced by a mostly younger generation of Australian artists.
I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing extends beyond the ‘traditional’ definition
of drawing, to include works addressing both the practice and nature of the drawing
medium. The exhibition explores a range of different approaches to contemporary
drawing, encompassing both two- and three-dimensional works, cell animation,
performance and video.
Artworks include Laith McGregor’s intricate and luminescent line drawings on
paper made entirely with fine blue biro pen and Dorota Mytych’s charcoal drawing of
hundreds of small humans which at a distance create the image of a jester’s face.
Lionel Bawden explores the three dimensional approach to drawing with his
sculpture the amorphous ones (the insatiable, unquantifiable longing) made from
hundreds of white pencils adhered together and then carved and sanded into a
beautifully organic form. Bawden, who presents his sculpture on a plinth made
from thousands of sheets of paper, He describes the work as ‘pencil on paper’.
Also on view are performative works featuring the production of marks,
animation pieces and collaborative artworks, including a work by artist twins
Gabriella and Silvana Mangano who have filmed a performance in which their
hands draw over, around and across one another’s body.
A significant new commission by Gosia Wlodarczak represents the immediacy
of drawing, with the artist documenting the drama that may unfold during a six
hour dinner party to be held at the MCA. The artist will make a continual drawn
observation directly on the tablecloth of everything she sees while guests eat, talk
and interact around the table. For the duration of the exhibition, MCA will display the
table—with the drawings all over its cloth—as a drawn record of the event.
The froth of cappuccinos and lattes will form the ‘canvas’ for Brisbane-based artist
Sebastian Moody when he presents his Coffee Intervention project as part of the
exhibition. Within this project, all coffees purchased from Campo’s coffee shop -
situated at the MCA’s George Street entrance and owned by rugby union legend David
Campese - will have their froth ‘drawn’ onto by baristas for the duration of the exhibition.
Moody conceived the project as a way of acknowledging the labour, care and expertise
that people put into overlooked, everyday jobs like making coffee. Baristas, including on
occasion David Campese himself, will initial and number every coffee they make during the
day. In this way the artist is exploring the idea that drawing can be defined as this simple
act of making marks in coffee foam.
ARTIST LIST:
Vernon Ah Kee (QLD)
Lionel Bawden (NSW)
Sky Bivens (VIC)
Kirsty Bruce (QLD)
Eugene Carchesio (QLD)
Sadie Chandler (VIC)
Sharon Goodwin (VIC)
Peter Grziwotz (VIC)
Patrick Hartigan (NSW)
Gordon Hookey (QLD)
Jess Johnson (VIC)
Locust Jones (NSW)
Maria Kontis (ACT)
Cassandra Laing (VIC)
Tim Silver (NSW)
Richard Lewer (VIC)
James Lynch (VIC)
Gabriella and Silvana Mangano (VIC)
John Vella (TAS)
Laith McGregor (QLD/VIC)
Sebastian Moody (QLD)
James Morrison (NSW)
Dorota Mytych (VIC)
Elvis Richardson (VIC)
Vin Ryan (VIC)
John Turier (NSW)
Michelle Ussher (VIC)
Gosia Wlodarczak (VIC)
Image: Laith MacGregor, Untitled, 2008, biro on paper. Collection of Michael Schwarz, Melbourne
Media contact
Kym Elphinstone 02 92452434 or 0421 106139 kym.elphinstone@mca.com.au
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