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The Projective Drawing
Exhibition
The Projective Drawing
6 Feb 2018 – 13 May 2018
Join us for the opening of The Projective Drawing, a group exhibition curated by Brett Littman, Executive Director, The Drawing Center, New York.
About
In the framework of the opening, curator Brett Littman and Elsy Lahner (Albertina, Vienna) will be in conversation with Austrian artists Judith Saupper, Brigitte Mahlknecht and Lionel Favre. The talk in the ACFNY auditorium is followed by a reception.
The exhibition is based on The Projective Cast, a book published in 1995 by architectural historian Robin Evans that defines a new way to explain how we "see" architecture by incorporating all sensations that underpin the human experience of built structures (mental, physical, and emotional). In The Projective Drawing, curator Brett Littman applies Evans's theory, which is skeptical of drawing at its core, to challenge and expand our understanding of how the medium of drawing operates in contemporary culture. Within the striking architecture of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, designed by Raimund Abraham in 1992, the exhibition includes both Austrian and international artists who require viewers to activate a matrix of complex and nontraditional ideas in order to interpret the works on view.
Artists on view:William Cordova, Lionel Favre, Sara Flores and the Shipibo Conibo Center, New York, Simona Koch, Brigitte Mahlknecht, Judith Saupper, Seher Shah, James Siena, Katrín Sigurdardóttir, and Leopold Strobl.
