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BREMERHAVEN – NEW YORK (MELTON PRIOR EDITION )
Now available: Our first edition of artists’ prints published by Melton Prior Institute for Reportage Drawing, Düsseldorf, in collaboration with Kunstverein Bremerhaven e.V. Luis Camnitzer, New York Bogdan Hoffmann, Bremen Birgit Jensen, Düsseldorf Ben Katchor, New York Stephan Mörsch, Berlin Alexander Roob, Düsseldorf Dierk Schmidt, Berlin Paul Schwer, Düsseldorf Andreas Siekmann, Berlin Susan Turcot, Toronto […]
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The pictorial diary of Christiaan Andriessen (1805 – 1808) (Exhibition / Ausstellung)
The Amsterdam City Archive shows an extensive selection of the drawn diary of the Amsterdam artist Christiaan Andriessen (1775-1846). He drew in his diary nearly every day until 1 janury 1807, after which he made one drawing a week. You can follow the artists family life as well as his professional accompishments with his use […]
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Local Court Hamburg Centre / Archive , 12 pencil drawings
A so-called job opportunity with extra compensation is what Hamburg draughtsman Henrik Hold owes his intimate insights into the Kafkaesque underground world of the local magistrate’s court. All the drawings were made on site in spring 2007. (Textem Verlag, Hamburg has published a book reproducing this series of drawings in duotone).
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„Conference Room, Peack House, Kaesong – Aug.15, ’51” by Herbert C. Hahn
This drawing, highlight of a series of a total of eight by American war artist Herbert C. Hahn, is certainly a haunting graphic document of the armistice talks during the Korean War that started at Kaesong on July 10, 1951 and lasted until August 22, 1951. Initially, both sides – the North Korean and Chinese […]
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Drawn Novel by Franz Erhard Walther
Until July 28, the Parisian Galerie Jocelyn Wolff presents drawing-based work by Franz Erhard Walther (*1939). The new work “Sternenstaub – A Drawn Novel” (2007/08) consists of several hundred (photocopies of) pencil-on-paper drawings tacked to the wall, each of them detailing memorable occurrences and encounters from the artist’s life – in a style vaguely reminiscent […]
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Tracing #1: «Superdocumenta» , 1994
«Superdocumenta» was created in the winter of 1994, on an invitation by Gunter Reski, as a contribution to the Hamburg-related text reader «Team Compendium – Selfmade Matches. Selbstorganisation Bereich Kunst», ed. by Rita Baukrowitz and Karin Günther. Initially supposed to be a written text on the actuality of the curatorial principle developed by Harald Szeemann […]
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Some notes on the ACRE series of pencil drawing
28 drawings made during a residency in Acre, Brazil as part of my invitation to the 27th Sao Paolo Bienal, ‘How to live together’. Drawing as reportage: I have tried to merge historical, environmental, anthropological research with my own experience of rituals, exchanges, and travel during my residency in Acre. This series does not capture […]
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Jan van der Heyden – Vedutismus und Pyroreport. (Ausstellungsbesprechung)
No translation yet. Die Ausstellung „Jan van der Heyden, painter and inventor“ im Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2. 2. – 30.4. 2007)Möglicherweise hat es eines derart exklamatorischen Obertitels wie „Braand /Fire!“ bedurft und eines nicht minder sensationistischen Vergleichs des Subjekts der Ausstellung mit Leonardo da Vinci, um über die obligatorischen Amsterdam-Pauschaltouristen hinaus noch weitere Besucher in die […]
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“Air Line” or The Unchosen Motif
The Dutch word “onverkoren” is a fictive, ambiguous term. It can mean both “not selected” and “not chosen.” Motifs not selected are motifs I came upon by chance. I am a painter who works outdoors, “in front of the motif.” My search for motifs in nature or in the city is influenced by the usual […]
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“You Draw What You Know” – In conversation with Theo de Feyter
A conversation on archaeology and drawing MePri, Düsseldorf, 12/16/2006 Alexander Roob: In addition to your art studies, you also completed a period of studies in archaeology and then worked as a professional archaeologist. Perhaps you can start with a bit of biographical information. Theo de Feyter: I first studied art at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, […]