The Nakeds
dal 23/9/2014 al 28/11/2014
Segnalato da
David Austen
Fiona Banner
Joseph Beuys
Louise Bourgeois
George Condo
Enrico David
Marlene Dumas
Tracey Emin
Leon Golub
Stewart Helm
Chantal Joffe
Maria Lassnig
Paul McCarthy
Chris Ofili
Carol Rama
Egon Schiele
Nancy Spero
Georgina Starr
Alina Szapocznikow
Rosemarie Trockel
Nicola Tyson
Andy Warhol
Franz West
23/9/2014
The Nakeds
Drawing Room (new location), London
The naked body is frequently the physical terrain artists traverse in search of the inner self. How to represent love, shame, solitude and sexual yearning? Drawing from the self or life model, from reproduction or the imagination, has provided artists with the freedom to explore desires, fears and fantasies.
David Austen, Fiona Banner, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, George Condo, Enrico David, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Leon Golub, Stewart Helm, Chantal Joffe, Maria Lassnig, Paul McCarthy, Chris Ofili, Carol Rama, Egon Schiele, Nancy Spero, Georgina Starr, Alina Szapocznikow, Rosemarie Trockel, Nicola Tyson, Andy Warhol and Franz West.
A group exhibition looking at drawings of the body exposed. The naked body is frequently the physical terrain artists traverse in search of the inner self. How to represent love, shame, solitude and sexual yearning? Drawing from the self or life model, from reproduction or the imagination, has provided artists with the freedom to explore desires, fears and fantasies.
The Nakeds takes as its starting point selected drawings of the single figure by Egon Schiele. From here it considers work by artists from the post-war period to the present day. The exhibition will include new work made specifically by Enrico David, Stewart Helm, Chantal Joffe and Nicola Tyson.
The Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918) was a prolific and provocative draughtsman. His drawings of the body unclothed or in a state of undress are amongst the most arresting works to have emerged from Vienna in the tumultuous years around the First World War. Working at the same time as Sigmund Freud, in the birthplace of modern psychiatry, the artist was attacked and acclaimed in his short lifetime. Still dividing opinion today, his drawings tested long-held distinctions between the ‘nude’ and the ‘naked’, art and pornography. The exhibition seeks to explore this contested terrain.
- The Nakeds has been curated by Drawing Room in collaboration with artist David Austen and art historian Gemma Blackshaw.
- Drawing Room thank the School of Humanities, Music and the Performing Arts, and ‘Innovation for the Creative and Cultural Industries’, Plymouth University for their support of the catalogue and contribution to Gemma Blackshaw’s research. We thank the Polish Cultural Institute and Paulina Latham, Head of Events and Visual Arts, for their support of the inclusion of the work of Alina Sczapochnikow. We thank our Patrons Miel de Botton, Brian Boylan and Veronique Parke for their generous and vital support of this exhibition.
Image: Stewart Helm, The line and the lust, 2011 Ink on paper, 50 x 70cm Courtesy the artist, Photo Peter White
Curators Tour: 24 September 2014 : 6:00 pm
Drawing Room
Tannery Arts, 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street, London SE1 5TE
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