Two exhibitions
dal 24/2/2006 al 21/4/2006
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24/2/2006
Two exhibitions
The Drawing Center, New York
Joelle Tuerlinckx will create a project that draws, indexes, and reports the measurements and scale of main gallery space. He uses lengths of thread, masses of confetti, elastic bands, rolls of paper, and areas of light projection. Selections Spring 2006. Analog Animation presents recent work by 18 emerging artists who animate their drawings largely with "old-fashioned", hand-drawn animation techniques rather than digital media.
Joelle Tuerlinckx
Drawing Inventory
The Drawing Center is pleased to announce Joelle Tuerlinckx: Drawing Inventory, the
first New York exhibition of the contemporary Belgian artist. Working on site at The
Drawing Center, Joelle Tuerlinckx will create a new project that draws, indexes, and
reports the measurements and scale of The Drawing Center's main gallery space.
Lengths of thread, masses of confetti, elastic bands, rolls of paper, and areas of
light projection will become tools for the artist to trace her experience of the
space. Joelle Tuerlinckx: Drawing Inventory is curated by Catherine de Zegher,
Executive Director, and Katherine Carl, Curator of Contemporary Exhibitions.
Tuerlinckx's new installation will draw on an unconventional combination of
materials taken from the immediate environment. The artist will re-draw the main
gallery by marking, erasing, and re-tracing the identifying lines, volumes and
processes of the space. Through what Tuerlinckx calls her "Stretch Drawings"--which
develop through prolonged video projections--she will extend this vision to include
new layouts for the gallery.
In her extensive working process, Tuerlinckx culls and arranges generic objects in
ways that address and consciously expand methods of drawing. The artist's
installations often resemble archaeological sites that are overflowing with
materials categorized according to multiple associations. Working on the floor or on
large tables, she displays an inventory of objects such as wooden sticks, Styrofoam
balls, stacks of doilies, and Post-it notes, meticulously arranged to bring out
qualities of line, shape, texture, hue, and spatial relationships that are usually
overlooked in everyday life. Tuerlinckx's constellations of marks re-consider the
roles and functions of collecting, preserving, and exhibiting within art
institutions.
The artist:
Tuerlinckx's work has been featured in numerous international solo exhibitions, such
as: Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (2004); The Renaissance Society at the
University of Chicago (2003); Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
(2001); Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (1999) and Witte de
With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1994). Her work was also included in Documenta 11
(2002); Density plus or minus Zero at the Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts,
Paris, France (2000); Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2000); Chantal Akerman,
Delphine Bedel, Ben Cain, Joelle Tuerlinckx at Marres, Maastricht, The Netherlands
(2000); and Inside the Visible at ICA, Boston, and the National Museum of Women in
the Arts, Washington, D.C. (1996).
Publication:
In conjunction with the exhibition, The Drawing Center will publish Drawing Papers
59, entitled Joelle Tuerlinckx: Drawing Inventory [Lines, Points, Forms, Figures,
Color, and Collages scale 1:1], featuring images of the artist's work and essays by
Jaleh Mansoor and Michael Newman.
Public programs:
On Thursday March 2 at 7 pm, The Drawing Center, in collaboration with Cabinet and
the Institute For Figuring, will present "Where the Wild Things Are: A Talk about
Knot Theory." In this hands-on talk, mathematician Ken Millet, Professor of
Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, will discuss the history,
theory, and ways of representing and diagramming the vastly diverse species of
knots. Millet will explain the role that the insights of knot theory have played in
our understanding of DNA and string theory. The talk will be moderated by Margaret
Wertheim, Director, The Institute For Figuring, Los Angeles. Admission is $5
(members free).
On Wednesday, March 8 at 6:30 pm, The Drawing Center will present the re-scheduled
lecture by Alain Badiou, "Art's Imperative: Speaking the Unspeakable." Admission is
free for this event.
Related programs:
The Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art (495 Broadway, 3rd Floor,
www.swissinstitute.net) will screen selected video works by Joelle Tuerlinckx on
March 22 - 23 from 11 am to 6 pm and March 22 at 7 pm.
The Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street) will present a screening of
Tuerlinckx's video Etudes Americaines (American Studies), (2003, 90 min.) on
Wednesday, April 19 at 8 pm.
Credits:
Joelle Tuerlinckx: Inventory of Drawing is made possible, in part, with the support
of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and JPMorgan Chase.
Opening Reception: Friday, February 24, 6 - 8 pm
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Analog Animation
Selections Spring 2006
Opening February 25 in The Drawing Center's Drawing Room is the exhibition Analog
Animation: Selections Spring 2006. Analog Animation presents recent work by 18
emerging artists who animate their drawings largely with "old-fashioned," hand-drawn
animation techniques rather than digital media. Analog Animation will highlight a
wide array of inventive animated works presented in a continuous projected loop and
four site-specific installations. The artists use such disparate media as collage,
imprints, silhouettes, light gels, and sliding window shades to create series of
moving and transforming images that foreground the artist's hand and the act of
drawing, rather than employ digital manipulation.
The artists to be featured are: Heather Boaz (Towson, Maryland), Brett Budde
(Guilford, Connecticut), Deborah Davidovits (Brooklyn, NY), Almut Determeyer
(Munich, Germany/New York, NY), John Dooley (New York, NY), Magdalena Fernandez
(Caracas, Venezuela), Mark Fox (New York, NY), Eunjung Hwang (New York, NY), Shin il
Kim (Brooklyn, NY), Anna Kiraly (New York, NY), Kakyoung Lee (Brooklyn, NY),
Jennifer Macdonald (Brooklyn, NY), Liza McConnell (Brooklyn, NY), Oscar Munoz (Cali,
Columbia), Serge Onnen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Hans Op de Beeck (Brussels,
Belgium), Linda Pella (Brooklyn, NY), and David Virgien (Munich, Germany). The
exhibition was curated through The Drawing Center's Viewing Program.
From the artists' time-consuming methods emerge drawings ranging from the elegiac
and ephemeral to the repetitive, absurd, and quotidian. The respective imaginations
of Serge Onnen and Eunjung Hwang yield bizarre conglomerations of human limbs and
orifices and cartoonish video-game characters. Stories of everyday life are produced
by silhouettes from Deborah Davidovits' cardboard cutouts and are pictured in
Kakyoung Lee's sketchy Manhattan scenes.
David Virgien repeatedly draws a street setting to reveal variances as hiccups of
movement, and John Dooley's animated collages transform the daily newspaper weather
map into an epic meteorological saga. Mark Fox entertained spiders with tiny paper
cutout drawings and videotaped the drawings being animated by the spiders' spinning
webs.
With a more serious tone, Jennifer Macdonald's haunting materialization of a lie is
drawn in crisp bright color whereas Hans Op de Beeck's dark forms of deteriorating
societies and architecture and Almut Determeyer's sweeping visions of death are
created with charcoal, watercolor, and graphite. Oscar Munoz and Heather Boaz,
however, meditate on the fleeting world with humor: Munoz repeatedly draws a
portrait on a stone, only to have it to evaporate almost immediately, and Boaz's
Sisyphean task involves a candle flame drawn over and over.
From abundant, repetitive drawing activity comes an economy of vision in Brett
Budde's 700 hand-drawn cells, which convey the simplest of disappearances, and Shin
il Kim's multitude of imprints on paper, which capture moments of action without
even the line of a pencil. In the same vein, Magdalena Fernandez presents simple
straight black lines, animated by ripples of water. The site-specific works in the
exhibition will include Liza McConnell's treadmill apparatus that will trigger lamps
to project a drawing on the walls of the Drawing Room, and Anna Kiraly's mechanized
window shades that give new meaning to the phrase "please draw the blinds."
Public programs:
On Saturday, February 25 at 4 pm The Drawing Center will present a free gallery talk
with the artists in Analog Animation and Katherine Carl, Curator of Contemporary
Exhibitions.
The Drawing Center will offer additional artists the opportunity to present their
animated drawings at the Emerging Animators Screening on Wednesday, March 15 at 6:30
pm. Emerging artists who have created animated works using low-tech and hand-drawn
techniques are invited to bring their works on VHS or DVD for this one-night open
call. Artists may sign up for the screening beginning at 6 pm.
DVD Catalog:
In support of Analog Animation, The Drawing Center will produce a special edition of
its Drawing Papers series, which will include a DVD with excerpts of each artist's
work.
Credits:
Analog Animation is made possible, in part, with the support of The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, and The
Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York.
Opening Reception: Friday, February 24, 6 - 8 pm
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