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During the 60s, the limitations of drawings were radically expanded. Minimal and conceptual artists like Sol LeWitt or Fred Sandback transferred the line from the two-dimensional surface into space. The drawing entered the third dimension. Time, space, body, language and memory, observation and action become the decisive factors in works by Franz Erhard Walther. And that “breakthrough into space” is the focus of this exhibition.
After the first part of the exhibition (April 30 – October 30, 2016) in which the development of drawings since the 50s was the central theme, the focus of the second part has been placed on contemporary positions that deal with the expansion of drawings into real, imagined or virtual space. For example, in the works of the artist duo Carolin Jörg and Michael Fragstein, the ink drawings “liquefy” and spread with the help of augmented reality apps, thus involving the viewer in the drawing and artistic process. On the Internet platform Lines Fiction, Bettina Munk brings together artists who combine drawing and animation to create interaction between the two media. The Dutch artist Robbie Cornelissen produces space with his pencil drawings that virtually suck in the viewer. Nanne Meyer’s drawings, on the other hand, reflect the pictorial space by means of a cartographic view from above, whereas in Barbara Camilla Tucholski’s sequential drawing cycles, she exposes the “space between” as a temporal and spatial phenomenon. In contrast, the close relation between sculpture and drawing, the tension between surface and form, texture and line, graphite and pigment becomes evident in the works of David Tremlett, Frank Gerritz, Hubert Kiecol, Jan Meyer-Rogge and Ulrich Rückriem.
PART I 30. APRIL 2016 – 30. OKTOBER 2016
Artists: Martin Assig, Jill Baroff, Lucie Beppler, KP Brehmer, Karoline Bröckel, John Cage, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Felix Droese, Friedrich Einhoff, Nadine Fecht, Karl Otto Götz, Lothar Götz, Katharina Hinsberg, Rebecca Horn, Balz Isler, Margrit Kahl, Karoly Keserü, Jürgen Klauke, Astrid Köppe, Sol LeWitt, Philip Loersch, Thomas Müller, Bettina Munk, Gudrun Piper, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer, James Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Sebastian Rug, Fred Sandback, Nora Schattauer, Jan Schoonhoven, K. R. H. Sonderborg, Malte Spohr, German Stegmaier, Gabi Steinhauser, Kai Sudeck, Rosemarie Trockel, Jorinde Voigt.