Drawing Room is the only public, non-profit gallery in the UK and Europe dedicated to the investigation and presentation of international contemporary drawing.
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
Graphology
10 May – 30 June 2012
William Anastasi, Carl Andre, Fiona Banner, Anna Barham, Pierre Bismuth, Juliana Borinski,
Marcel Broodthaers, Steffan Brüggemann, Tony Conrad, Sigmund Freud, Mekhitar Garabedian,
Dean Hughes, Wim Janssen, Peter Kubelka, Anthony McCall, László Moholy-Nagy, Brian O’Doherty,
Man Ray, Paul Sharits, Thomas Zummer
Curated by Edwin Carels (KASK / HoGent)
Left: Pierre Bismuth, Following the Right Hand of Sigmund Freud 2009
16 mm Film 01:30 min, silent
Courtesy Jan Mot, Brussels
Right: Peter Kubelka, FILMS ON PAPER, 1958-1960 (detail)
typed cutouts, made in exile
Courtesy the artist
Graphology Special Events
Artists' Presentations & Film Screenings: Saturday June 16th 2-6pm
Developed in collaboration with Edwin Carels, the curator of Graphology, this exciting line-up includes rare appearances in the UK of the Belgian conceptual artist Pierre Bismuth and controversial Austrian film-maker Peter Kubelka, a performance conceived by London-based artist Anna Barham and a programme of short films by Robert Breer, Paul Bush, Stuart Hilton, Guy Sherwin and others.
Graphology is conceived by Edwin Carels (curator, M HKA, Antwerp and researcher in the arts KASK/Hogent)
Price: £10 Full Price, £7 Concessions
Booking essential: graphology.eventbrite.com
Recent Events at Drawing Room |
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Drawing Room’s first Idea Sharing Forum on Drawing was highly successful. A collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art, UCL, it involved the participation of artists, academics and curators who shared new work and ideas through presentations and discussion. Artist Kate Davis described it as a
The conference Travelling Lines: Drawing as an Itinerant Practice (in collaboration with TrAIN, University of the Arts) included key note lectures by Christian Rattemeyer and Moacir dos Anjos and fascinating exchanges between the exhibiting artists, guest artist Ellen Gallagher and curators, writers and collectors Pablo Leon de la Barra, Tanya Barson, Guy Brett, Kate Brindley, Catherine Lampert, Catherine Petitgas, Grant Watson and Isobel Whitelegg.
Mateo Lopez, a Colombian artist participating in the exhibition, led a highly successful 4 day workshop with students from Southwark College that explored the application of expanded drawing into the disciplines of architecture, graphic design and sculpture. |
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Richard Deacon speaking at Idea Sharing Forum, November 2011
Group discussion with participants of the Travelling Lines Conference, 2011. From left to right: Pablo Leon de la Barra, Artists Tony Cruz, Gilda Mantilla & Raimond Chaves in discussion with The Peripatetic School curator Tanya Barson Mateo Lopez with student at Southwark College |
IMAGES FROM OUR FUNDRAISER, MAY 2011
