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until 04.09. | #4349ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar shows from 13. July 2024 the group exhibition Zeichnung heute.
The exhibition brings together thirteen graphic positions from more than fifty years.
Arnulf Rainer, 1980, Klimt-Aktüberzeichnung, Ölkreide und Graphit, 25 x 35 cm
The medium of paper as an essential carrier of artistic images has a tradition going back well over a thousand years. Drawing in the narrower sense has also gained in importance since the Renaissance, often as an autonomous work of art.
Jack Sal, White/Wash, Memorial, Kielce 2003
This applies in full to the further development of art. However, the idea of reducing drawing to its serving function and defining it as a sketch, draft, notation and the like, always referring to its spontaneity, persists to this day.
Sharka Hyland, Else Lasker-Schüler, Styx, 2023, Bleistift auf Papier, 30,4 x 40,5 cm und Detail
Not only are works on paper generally extremely important in modernism, as the works of almost all important artists show, but drawing itself also receives the greatest attention today, which it has always deserved. Its history cannot be written here, but George Seurat must be mentioned (and it is precisely in this context that the above quote stands).
Li Jin, Misty, Ink Wash on Xuan Paper, 2004, 42 x 48 cm
This change of perspective also reflects a fundamentally new attitude towards the image and the concept of the image. Whether it is a meticulous fine drawing whose chiaroscuro creates pictorial values, the conceptual integration of language, simple supposed traces of lines or vehement gestural settings, there is always a fully valid claim.
Nanne Meyer, Mittelbachs Straßenprofilkarte für Radfahrer, 2010, Gouache auf Landkarte, 50 x 54 cm
This does not mean that “classical” sketches do not retain their raison d’être, but they now live for themselves and as pictures or become independent as entire groups of works.
Opening: Saturday, 13. July, 11 am – 2 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 13. July until Wednesday, 4. September 2024
To the gallery
Bildunterschrift Titel: Gottfried Salzmann, Des traces d’arbres, Kohle auf Papier, 1988, 65 x 83 cm
Group exhibition Zeichnung heute – Galerie Dittmar | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
