Magazine for contemporary drawing
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. David HockneyWriting, mathematics, circle, line, landscape, sound, city, science and people ? as always, the aim is to present contemporary drawing in a broad variation of expressions, concepts and subjects. But this time we are also more curious what the artists say about their works, and have included several interviews within the pages of the new issue.
As we worked on this issue, a recurring theme emerged; drawing and writing. Many of the contributing artists include writing in their works. Pia Linz and Corrie Baldauf are using notes, fragments of conversations or sensations related to the place and time.
A drawing as a text describing a painting that doesn't exist is made by Stephen Farthing. Also Raymond Pettibon?s drawings include an extensive use of words, which is also true for Tony Fitzpatrick's poster-like works, and the inventor Karl Hans Janke's illustrations of rockets and other machines with explanatory notes.
The words are used as a means of expression at the same level as the drawing, adding a new layer to reading the artwork.Like in writing, drawing has no boundaries; you can easily make a big lump of earth levitate like in Steve Johnson's watercolour-drawings. The impossible becomes possible, everyday objects and places turn into poetry and only the imagination is the limit.
Participating artists:
Amigo, Corrie Baldauf, Stephen Farthing, Tony Fitzpatrick, Geir Haraldseth, Akira Horikawa, Karl Hans Janke, Sophie Jodoin, Steve Johnson, Reece Jones, Ingeborg Kvame, Thomas Laroche-Joubert, Pia Linz, Lotte Konow Lund, Ole Jørgen Ness, Paul Noble, Christine Ödlund, Yuria Okamura, Raymond Pettibon, Candida Powell-Williams, Cameron Robbins, Sebastian Rug, Owen Schuh, Lorna Simpson, Heike Weber
Björn Hegardt (Ed.)
Berlin 2013, ill., 29,5 x 24, softcover, English
ISBN 978-3-86895-322-0
