HIPKISS at Galerie Michael Haas:
Sternstunde 100 drawings
16th September - 15th October 2016
Galerie Michael Haas
Niebuhrstraße 5
10629 Berlin
"Drawing – in the form of cave drawings – is as old as human culture.
However, only in comparatively recent times has it been considered a
work of art in its own right. In the 15th century, particular during the
Renaissance and Mannerism, artists, critics and collectors began to
attach a particular value to drawing. Above all it was valued as a
method of studying and testing a design. In art theory, its value is
seen in the correlation between an idea (concetto) and drawing (disegno)
as an artistic achievement, an act of creation. Over the course of the
following centuries, the medium gained more and more autonomy in
relation to painting and the creative scope was broadened: colour and
various techniques such as pen, pastel, chalk or watercolour opened up
new artistic possibilities.
The drawn line as an artistic medium serves to reduce the subject to a
few lines and contours. The line itself is always abstract. But only
with the onset of modernity did artists begin to go beyond the
representational, to abstract, alienate and seek individual forms of
expression. Galerie Michael Haas has selected numerous drawings from
the 19th, 20th and 21st century, by artists who have found their
artistic identity through free, non-representational, abstract, surreal
or realistic works particularly or exclusively in the medium of drawing.
The selection includes Georges Seurat, Adolph von Menzel, Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner, Paul Klee, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Henri Matisse, Pablo
Picasso, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Hans Uhlmann, Arnulf Rainer, Georg
Baselitz, Gary Kuehn, Leonard Baskin, Konrad Klapheck as well as David
Nicholson, John Isaacs, Hipkiss, Thomas Palme, Dirk Lange and many other
artists."
for further information please click here.
http://www.galeriemichaelhaas.de/en/exhibitions/sternstunde-100-drawings-0#
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