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David Shrigley, Untitled, 2008. © D. Shrigley.
Jorinde Voigt, STAAT / Random IV, 2008,
(Detail) © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010.
Anna Oppermann, Olive, seit 1977.
© A. Oppermann Estate, Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin.
Claude Heath, Ben Nevis, 2003. © C. Heath.
From: Alexander Roob, CS: Neurobiologische
Versuchslabore, Neurobiological Experimental Laboratory, University of Bremen, 2003.
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010.
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Sprawling fantastic worlds, fictitious maps, exuberant, comic-like picture stories, diagrams depicting the knowledge
of the world, subconscious doodles that illustrate the soul's inner workings: Drawing is a spontaneous, sweeping artistic medium through
which myriad realities become unfurled. Drawing is also a medium that directly connects with our everyday experience: Every child draws,
every adult scribbles regularly, draws up plans, sketches routes, attempts a portrait or simple chart.
On over 1,400 qm space our overview exhibition The More I Draw in the Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen highlights the
tendencies in contemporary art drawing since the 1960s, focusing on the serial, narrative, descriptive, and mythologizing forms.
The exhibition showcases 41 international artists and aims at revealing the definitive role drawing plays in modern art, a role that
was conceived by Conceptual Art, which discovered drawing as an original art medium and to a large extent helped to revaluate it
through its conceptual traits.
Well-known artists' approaches are shown in an historical retrospective, such as by Joseph Beuys, Frédéric Bruly
Bouabré or Cy Twombly, but also other important illustrators of the following generation, for example Anna Oppermann or Tomas
Schmit, among others. A focal point of the exhibition is the actual practice of drawing, visualized by extensive groupings of works
and drawing installations by contemporary artists such as Jorinde Voigt, Dan Perjovschi, or Alexander Roob, artists who have
expanded drawing as an art form experimentally and through performance.
The features of the exhibition in an overview:
The More I Draw...
- presents the drawing practice of several generations during a time span of fifty years.
- concentrates on artists whose primary work medium is drawing.
- will display individual positions in entire rooms, others will be presented in a dialogic situation.
- also showcases younger artists that have developed mainly new works for the exhibition, including site-specific projects.
The artists of the exhibition (in chronological order): Joseph Beuys, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Cy Twombly, Gerhard Rühm, André Thomkins,
Stanley Brouwn, Anna Oppermann, Hanne Darboven, Katharina Meldner, Tomas Schmit, Barbara Camilla Tucholski, Heinz Emigholz, Anne-Mie
van Kerckhoven, Nanne Meyer, Peter Radelfinger, Silvia Bächli, Harald Falkenhagen, Joseph Grigely, Alexander Roob, Raymond Pettibon,
Nedko Solakov, Mark Lammert, Dan Perjovschi, Johnny Miller, Dorothea Schulz, Tracey Emin, Claude Heath, Pia Linz, Hannes Kater,
Pavel Pepperstein, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, David Shrigley, Chloë Piene, Ryõko Aoki, Christelle Franc, Katrin Ströbel, Ralf
Ziervogel, Constantin Luser, Dasha Shishkin, Jorinde Voigt and Mariusz Tarkawian.
An extensive catalogue will be published at the beginning of September. The catalogue will include an introductory
essay by Eva Schmidt and an article by Michel Sauer, next to expositions on the artists and a commentated index by Jan-Philipp
Fruehsorge on exhibitions, blogs, publications, etc. that are dedicated to drawing as a medium. Publisher: DuMont Buchverlag,
Cologne. Price in the museum book shop: 29 € / estimated retailer price 34.95 €.
The exhibition and the accompanying program have been supported generously by:
The Governor of the State of NRW, the NRW Art Foundation, the Federal Art Foundation, Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Art Foundation,
the Sparkasse Siegen, and the Museum's Circle of Friends.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen is a culture partner of the WDR.
Museum of Contemporary Art
Unteres Schloss 1, 57072 Siegen
www.mgk-siegen.de, info@mgk-siegen.de
Phone: 0271-405 77 0, Fax: 0271- 40577-32
Opening Hours: Tu to Su 11 to 18 o’clock; Th 11 to 20 o'clock
Admission: 5,90 € / reduced fee: 4,60 €
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