Six sepia ink drawings capture the "most curious sites" that Adam Dant encountered during his three week stay at the British School in Rome in 2004. Dant was inspired by Goya's sketchbook albums created over thirty years from 1796. Within them Goya observed the attitudes and occupations of everyday people around Spain. As with Goya's revolutionary depiction of humanity, Dant's drawings reveal a vast and fascinated imagination seized by the charm of day-to-day life.
Ink on paper
36 x 38 cm unframed
Ink on paper
36 x 38 cm unframed
Ink on paper
36 x 38 cm unframed
Ink on paper
36 x 38 cm unframed
Each unique drawing £1,700 unframed
Your better tomorrow (call now), 2002 (detail)
Adam Dant
Your Tomorrow Better (call now), is a large drawing measuring 6 '6'' x 10' composed of three hundred interconnected small drawings that fan-out in a formal perspectival grid, akin to the widening beam of light from a film projector. Depicted in each circle of densely inked lines are scenes of minor everyday accidents, continuously flowing forward to their effect and back to their cause, gradually exposing the flagrant conceits of the 'coincidence' in storytelling.
Adam Dant was born in 1967 in Cambridge, England, and lives and works in London. His solo exhibition The people who live on the plank (2003) opened at The Drawing Room, London, and toured to Mead Gallery, University of Warwick and Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool. He is probably best known as the creator of Donald Parsnips’ Daily Journal, a comic-strip pamphlet he drew, photocopied and handed out to passers by in London or wherever he travelled between 1995-99. Donald Parsnip also appeared as a weekly column in the Independent on Sunday. He has exhibited worldwide, with solo exhibitions in Paris and New York and his drawings, installations and other artworks are in the collections of the Arts Council of England, The Museum of London, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, The Museum of Modern Art, New York and numerous other public and private collections.
Your better Tomorrow (call now) was created for an exhibition at Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York January 17 - March 2, 2002
