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July 17, 2006 | Drawing |
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Sprueth Magers Projekte, Munich
Robert Crumb Spruth Magers Projekte is proud to present a large selection of drawings by Philadelphia born artist and illustrator Robert Crumb. The works include multi- page and shorter comic strips, short stories, sketches and type studies, ranging from the 1960’s to 2003. Crumb is considered to be one of the fathers of the movement of Underground Comix, which developed in the sixties in the USA and represented a counterweight to the commercial comic industry. Although he holds a bitingly relentless view of the different types of society, he regards them with utmost care and partial affection. He draws special attention to his native country, USA, and it’s "Way of Life" for which he is critically opposed to. In the sixties and seventies Crumb’s characters became cult figures of the anti-establishment and were often subjected to active criticism due to their sexual and political representations. Some of his figures are perceived as the artist’s alter ego. Famous figures from the strips like Mr. Natural, Angelfood McSpade, Honeybunch and Fritz the Cat are loudmouthed, under the influence of drugs, antisocial and always horny, and they live their erotic fantasies in the strips. Read on...Sprueth Magers Projekte, Munich |
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Alison Jacques, London
Mark Flores - Gone West Alison Jacques presents the first UK solo show of new work by Los Angeles based artist Mark Flores. In a series of new installations, consisting of hundreds of small paintings and a collection of new drawings, Mark Flores plays on the expansiveness of abstraction, simultaneously evoking the “end of the continent sadness” of American Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac and the commonplace, diaristic impressions of American poet James Schuyler. Flores suggests a place lost or forgotten, yet somehow hopeful. A sunny California utopia has crumbled to dust, but in the wreckage we can still find a few precious, fleeting moments of calm and beauty. The drawings depict the scratches, scuffs and evidence of wear over time present in the source material. Occupying the facing wall of the gallery is a group of portraits created in shades of grey, of singular subjects sitting or standing in various poses. All source images are taken from the archive of historical photographs at U. C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library. Read on...Alison Jacques, London |
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Goff+Rosenthal, New York
Joe Biel - New Drawings In his spare, humorous and dark depictions of children in fantastic and disturbing settings Biel’s images leave a strong visual and psychological mark. In all of the imagery in this exhibition, children or child-like figures take on adult roles or engage in the power roles of an adult world. They can seem menacing or controlling but their degree of power is always tentative, slightly ridiculous and possibly more dangerous because of this. The images can be both grandiose and obscene Biel’s medium is drawing, generally on paper, which offers him more freedom as an artist: “Drawing is often seen as being ‘in service’ to painting and sculpture. The idea that drawing can make weighty statements with the same punch as more epic and supposedly archival mediums still seems surprising to some people. But for me, being less concerned with eternity frees me to go on to other concerns.” Read on...Goff+Rosenthal, New York |
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Chung King Project, Los Angeles
Flip - A Drawing Exhibition In association with
The Drawing Room, London The drawings in this exhibition range from spontaneous expressions of a momentary notion to densely and carefully worked narrative or architectural constructions. What they have in common though is a thread of seriality, of repetition. Sometimes the repetition is one of subject - the same figure or device is reconsidered from a different perspective or at a different time, sometimes the repetition is more one of structure - a formal framing is re-applied to different subjects in a comic-strip format or in a series of vignettes. Flip considers the ways in which this repetition can draw attention to the moments or points of change and lend them yet greater intensity. Chung King Project is a collaboration between Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, fa projects, London and Wohnmaschine, Berlin Read on...Chung King Project, Los Angeles |
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Praz-Delavallade, Paris
AS THEY FALL - Robyn O’Neil Robyn O’Neil leads us into a landscape at once familiar and alienating. Far-reaching vistas, snow bound vignettes, and unlimited oceans remind us of travel journals or children’s books but this is nature at its least welcoming. These epic landscape drawings could be read as filmic scenes, altar paintings or biblical parables due to their scale and ambition. The works suggest a pre- or post-apocalyptic scene. Yet, the curious and intriguing aspect of these drawings is, in fact, their total ambiguity. Read on...Praz-Delavallade, Paris |
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ROKEBY, London
Tim Knowles And Catherine Morland Tim Knowles creates drawings independent of his own hand, using elaborate apparatus or time consuming practices. Knowles invents experimental and playful procedures to introduce chance and unpredictability into his work. Often he will employ and expose mans relationship to nature, in an ongoing series which will feature in the exhibition, Knowles attaches pens to the tips of branches of various trees; placing paper in front of them he allows the chance movement of the wind to dictate the composition of the final drawing. The artist surrenders final control of the work, questioning the authority of the artist whilst allowing the fundamental and primordial characteristics associated with drawing to be communicated. This acceptance of drawing as a process and an experimental medium allows Catherine Morland’s practice to investigate ways of seeing and to question the manner in which we view and order the world around us. Using smoke, soot, light and water, Morland’s work evokes the unstable quality of our vision. Drawings on glass are made with smoke, which are installed using light to project the images onto the wall, the projections of which appear fragile and temporal or as after images or recalled memories. Read on...ROKEBY, London |
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Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York
Table Top Erica Baclawski Fabian Birgfeld Beth Campbell Marti Cormand Annabel Daou Alexander Gorlizki Alex Hamilton Xylor Jane Ricardo Lanzarini Marco Maggi Jason Middlebrook David Moreno Adam Ogilvie David Payton Raymond Pettibon Fidel Sclavo Ken Solomon Nicolas Touron Andy Warhol Amy Wilson Table Top is a show of horizontal drawings, the negation of the tablecloth. Passing from table to table, one experiences the intimate relationship between the paper and the artist as the works are seen from the perspective they were made at. Read on...Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York |
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