Drawings at the Biennale in Venice


© Courtesy of the artist Lin Xue & Gallery EXITUntitled NO.5. ink on paper in artist's frame, 33 x 48 cm framed (1995-2008)



© Courtesy of the artist Lin Xue & Gallery EXITink on paper78.1 x 52.4 cm framed (2010)




curated by Massimiliano Gioni, The Encyclopedic Palace, La Biennale di Venezia 
till 2013, November 24, Arsenale, Venice, Italy


Drawings at the Biennale in Venice




"The exercise of the imagination through writing and drawing is a recurring motif in the exhibition. (...) José Antonio Suárez Londoño translates into images the diaries of Franz Kafka. " (1) Massimiliano Gioni

José Antonio Suárez Londoño makes every day drawings in small notebooks, based on a specific literary text.



© José Antonio Suárez Londoño, Untitled. MOMA collection, Watercolor, pencil and ink on paper (2002)




© José Antonio Suárez Londoño, Untitled. MOMA collection, Watercolor, pencil and ink on paper, 35.6 x 43.2 cm (2001)




(1) Massimiliano Gioni, The Encyclopedic Palace, La Biennale di Venezia 
till 2013, November 24, Giardini, Venice, Italy

 
© Rachel Whiteread, Drawing for Water Tower VI, varnish, ink, and pencil on graph paper. 84.1 x 59.1 cm, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. (1997)



© Rachel Whiteread, Door,  Enamel paint and ink on graph paper. 42 x 29.5 cm, Private Collection (1992)



© Rachel Whiteread, 50 spaces (2010)



© Oshin Albrecht, Boomtown Expo, Site 1, Under this there's another (2012)



© Oshin Albrecht, Boomtown Expo, Site 1, Under this there's another (2012)



© Oshin Albrecht, Drawing (2011)

© Werner Mannaers, guache, d.e.L.m. 037




Werner Mannaers defines his drawings as after studies of his paintings. The works are almost concrete in his head before he even paints them. He doesn't allow matter and materiality to lead him and he tries to exclude the accidental. 





© Werner Mannaers, guache, D.e.L.m. 001



One couldn't categorize some work as figurative or abstract, as 'It doesn't matter', according to Mannaers. Color equals form. Color is limited by itself. Just as color creates space in the work of Ellsworth Kelly and Donald Judd. 



© Werner Mannaers, guache, lOveLETTer 186




Willem Elias talked with Werner Mannaers, organized by The Drawing Incident, 
Sint-Lucas Ghent, 2013, May 8



© Luc Tuymans, Carpet, guache on paper, 27 x 21 cm (2003)



© Luc Tuymans, AppleOil on printed paper on painted wood, 25,4 x 26.7 cm (1993)