Drawing Sculpture
Drawing, sculpture, video from the Daimler Art Collection
September 12, 2009–February 28, 2010
Haus Huth
Alte Potsdamer Straße 5
10785 Berlin, Germany
Open daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Admission free
‘Drawing Sculpture’ is presenting a selection from the Daimler Art Collection’s wide-ranging holdings of works on paper for the first time, complemented by sculptures, videos and picture objects. About 60 works by 28 artists are being shown, dating from about 1960 to the present day. In each case the presentation will stage dialogues between classical Minimalist positions from the 1960s and international contemporary art.
The exhibition is not addressing drawing as a tool for sketches and preliminary stages leading to actual works of art, but presenting it above all as an independent and potentially creative medium. Drawing’s conceptual possibilities resulted from developments in the course of the 20th century, especially in connection with the move away from figurative to abstract art. Here the changed perception of the work of art not as a completed unit but that of art as a process has an important part to play.
One further aspect addressed by ‘Drawing Sculpture’ shows drawing’s potential for working in three-dimensions. Again and again it is sculptors who exploit drawing’s ability to explore an exciting relationship between line, surface and three-dimensional presence, and who have paid attention to the creative function of line in outline and internal structure, in other words to disegno. Drawing in the present perception of art, also includes work that has been produced not by classical drawing but as a working process, and that suggests the essential character of drawing as the origin of order and structure, and its quality as a sensual and tactile expressive form.
The concept of dialogue between works from different periods and styles will be drawn into focus once more, and taken outside the exhibition gallery by a special exhibition called ‘Auke, Giorgio, Ignaz & Oskar’. The Dutch sculptor Auke de Vries has chosen works from the collections at Daimler, the Gemäldegalerie and the Bode-Museum in Berlin and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. These will strike up a conversation, as originals or large-format photographs, with de Vries’s sculptures, which are both abstract and richly allusive in their motifs. The artistic dialogues can be seen at Daimler Contemporary and at Bode Museum in Berlin.
Participating Artists:
Leonor Antunes (P), Eva Berendes (D), Hartmut Böhm (D), Monika Brandmeier (D), Christo (BG), Dadamaino (I), Katja Davar (D), Gia Edzgveradze (GE), Ulrike Flaig (D), Adolf Fleischmann (D), Marcia Hafif (USA), Rita Hensen (D), Georg Herold (D), Oskar Holweck (D), Claude Horstmann (D), Markus Huemer (A), Robert Longo (USA), François Morellet (F), Rupert Norfolk (GB), Silke Radenhausen (D), Eva-Maria Reiner (D), Jan Scharrelmann (D), Oskar Schlemmer (D), Lasse Schmidt Hansen (DK), Jan J. Schoonhoven (NL), Auke de Vries (NL), Andy Warhol (USA), Georg Winter (D)
The exhibition at Daimler Contemporary is accompanied by a comprehensive program, including talks with artists and curators, lectures and discussions as well as themed guided tours. These tours are available in German language on every first Saturday of a month at 4 p.m. (03 Oct 2009/ 06 Nov / 05.Dec / 09 Jan 2010 / 06 Feb 2010). Please check our website for updates and announcements on the supporting program. If you would like to receive regular information about exhibitions and activities of the Daimler Art Collection please send an E-Mail to: kunst.sammlung@daimler.com or join our Fanpage on Facebook
Exhibition catalogues are available at Daimler Contemporary, at bookshop Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz in Berlin or can be ordered online at: collection.daimler.com/publikationen/publikationen_e.php
Contact:
Daimler Contemporary
Haus Huth
Alte Potsdamer Straße 5
10785 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)30 259 41 42 0
Fax: +49 (0)30 259 41 42 9
E-Mail: kunst.sammlung@daimler.com
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