Daimler Contemporary       
12 September 2009 to 28 February 2010
(closed form 24 Dec to 1 January )

Drawing Sculpture
Drawing, sculpture, video from the Daimler Art Collection

The show is presenting a selection from the Daimler Art Collection's wide-ranging holdings of works on paper for the first time, complemented by sculpture, 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 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 and Oskar". The Dutch sculptor Auke de Vries has chosen works from the collections at Daimler, the Gemäldegalerie and the Bodemuseum in Berlin and the Staatsgalerie in 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.

Silke Radenhausen
Arabian N° 1; 1996-2003
canvas, 12 coloured parts.

 

 

Katja Davar
Remote Host; 2001
3-D Animation on DVD

The DRAWING SCULPTURE show 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 the exhibition 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, in an extended sense, also includes work that has been produced not by classical drawing by 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.

Guided Tours and Talks

participating artists

Leonor Antunes, Eva Berendes, Hartmut Böhm, Monika Brandmeier, Christo, Katja Davar, Gia Edzgveradze, Ulrike Flaig, Adolf Fleischmann, Marcia Hafif, Lasse Schmidt Hansen, Rita Hensen, Georg Herold, Oskar Holweck, Claude Horstmann, Markus Huemer, Robert Longo, François Morellet, Rupert Norfolk, Silke Radenhausen, Eva-Maria Reiner, Jan Scharrelmann, Oskar Schlemmer, Jan J. Schoonhoven, Auke de Vries, Andy Warhol, Georg Winter