With head and hand – variations on the design
Over the course of the twentieth century and over the last few decades, the medium of drawing has been redefined several times. Among other things, the following trends can be identified; that is, first of all, the gradual recognition of drawing as an independent artistic expression alongside painting and sculpture. He was released from a purely preparatory or service craft consideration.
Secondly, in its abstract and conceptual quality, the drawing corresponded to the search for the intellectual foundations of art, which had occupied the twentieth century intensely.
And thirdly, the drawing responded to the need for spontaneity and immediacy, which was a driving force to overcome the rigid stylistic concepts and the narrow personalities of the artist.
The historical-artistic contributions of the painters EK Kirchner, Francis Picabia, Henri Michaux and Roy Lichtenstein mark a field of drawing that was also intensively studied and expanded by the artists of the Düsseldorf Academy after the Second World War.
The connection between drawing and writing in Kirchner, the intertwining of figuration and imagination in Picabia, abstraction and drawing in Michaux.
A systematic search for sculptures in the white space of the surface reveals the directions in which young artists could go: Siegfried Anzinger, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Cragg, Helmut Federle, Gotthard Graubner, Jörg Immendorff, Konrad Klapheck, Dieter Krieg, Markus Lüpertz, Saranno in shows Albert Oehlen, AR Penck, Gerhard Richter, Fritz Schwegler, Rosemarie Trockel and many others.
The rooms of the Accademia Gallery have been transformed into a dense installation in which several 100 drawings offered an extraordinary demonstration of this medium which, especially in the art of recent decades, has been able to acquire a natural status in advance or alongside the works in other genres.
A catalog has been published for the exhibition (EUR 34.80).
