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19/4/2007

Two exhibitions

The Drawing Center, New York

William Anastasi, Raw + Gego, Between Transparency and the Invisible

William Anastasi, Raw

For this exhibition in the Drawing Room, the artist William Anastasi will recreate seminal site-specific works dating from the mid-1960s. These early pieces are a testament to the artist's interest and pioneering efforts in site-specific projects, as well as in the medium of drawing. The artworks incisively explore the nature and behavior of drawing in the gallery space through different strategies, bringing to the surface questions about site and medium specificity, materiality, and the dematerialization of the art object. By focusing on the artist's expansive approach to the medium, the exhibition aims to contribute to a much deserved critical reconsideration of Anastasi's oeuvre.

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Gego, Between Transparency and the Invisible

Curated by Mari Carmen Ramirez

Gego, Between Transparency and the Invisible explores the intriguing relationship between line and light in the work of the Venezuelan artist Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt, 1912-1994). The exhibition will trace Gego's interest in "mak[ing] visible the invisible" from a rarely seen series of monotypes of the early 1950s to her delicate drawings without paper and tejeduras (woven paper pieces) of the late 1970s-1980s. Juxtaposing important artworks produced from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s and bringing two bodies of Gego's work into dialogue for the first time, Gego, Between Transparency and the Visible, will foreground the critical role that drawing and printmaking played in the artist's oeuvre. Curated by Mari Carmen Ramirez, curator of Latin American art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Image: Gego

Opening: Friday, April 20, 6:00PM - 8:00PM

The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street - New York

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