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News Franz Erhard Walther in conversation with Hans Ulrich ObristWednesday, 7 March 2012 from 18:30 to 20:00Franz Erhard Walther in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist (Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London), coinciding with the exhibition – Franz Erhard Walther: DRAWINGS - Frame / Line / Action / Drawn Novel at Drawing Room from 8 March – 28 April 2012.
Franz Erhard Walther (b.1939, Fulda, Germany) is one of Germany’s most prominent living artists, having exhibited extensively across Europe since the 1960s and participated in four editions of Documenta during the 1970s and 1980s. Franz Erhard Walther: DRAWINGS - Frame / Line / Action / Drawn Novel will include ground-breaking work from the late 1950s, 60s and 70s together with the artist’s latest retrospective and autobiographical project – Dust of Stars. A Drawn Novel which traces the artist’s longstanding engagement with drawing as it informs the conceptual underpinnings of his work, interweaving with the mediums of sculpture and performance. Tickets: £5 Full price / £3 Concessions Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Click here to book. Works for Sale DRAWING ROOM can offer unique, one-off drawings and limited edition prints at reasonable prices. Our wide selection ranges from the delicate abstract drawings of Glasgow-based Aleana Egan to the figurative works of London-based artists Charles Avery and Adam Dant. Visit our Works for Sale page to view a selection of available works.
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Featured Works Charles Avery Coscienza Coming Towards, Coscienza going away from, 2007 woodcut, diptych, edition of 25, 50 x 37.5cm: 60.5 x 48.5 cm framed Limited Edition produced by Drawing Room Price: £1,800 framed
Aleana Egan Binet's Addition 2, 2011 Pencil and Ink on paper 29.7 x 21 cm
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New Publication available to buy The Peripatetic School: Itinerant Drawing from Latin America The Peripatetic School: Itinerant Drawing from Latin America looks at the work of nine artists who have adopted forms of travel or nomadism to explore contemporary life in America. Selected by curator Tanya Barson, the artists include Brígida Baltar, Tony Cruz, Raimond Chaves and Gilda Mantilla, André Komatsu, Mateo López, Jorge Macchi, Nicolás Paris and Ishmael Randall Weeks, whose shared interests lead them to engage with urban and rural landscapes through the medium of drawing. |
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Exhibition Tour to mima
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201 x 315 x 187cm, Courtesy the artist, Frederica Schaivo Galeria, Rome and Eleven Rivington, New York |
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| Recent Events at Drawing Room Drawing Room’s first Idea Sharing Forum on Drawing was highly successful. A collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art, UCL, it involved the participation of artists, academics and curators who shared new work and ideas through presentations and discussion. Artist Kate Davis described it as a
The conference Travelling Lines: Drawing as an Itinerant Practice (in collaboration with TrAIN, University of the Arts) included key note lectures by Christian Rattemeyer and Moacir dos Anjos and fascinating exchanges between the exhibiting artists, guest artist Ellen Gallagher and curators, writers and collectors Pablo Leon de la Barra, Tanya Barson, Guy Brett, Kate Brindley, Catherine Lampert, Catherine Petitgas, Grant Watson and Isobel Whitelegg. Mateo Lopez, a Colombian artist participating in the exhibition, led a highly successful 4 day workshop with students from Southwark College that explored the application of expanded drawing into the disciplines of architecture, graphic design and sculpture. |
Travelling Lines Conference, 2011. From left to right: Pablo Leon de la Barra, Artists Tony Cruz, Gilda Mantilla & Raimond Chaves in discussion with The Peripatetic School curator Tanya Barson Mateo Lopez with student at Southwark College |
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IMAGES FROM OUR FUNDRAISER, MAY 2011
