The gallery opened in October 2003.
As the name Galerie für Zeichnung suggests,the gallery will focus exclusively on the medium of drawing;its program will feature a broad spectrum of contemporary international drawings.
Why Drawing?
Drawings were long relegated to a inferior status among artistic media, overshadowed by "major" representational work.
Yet it is precisely the unfinished,provisional and vulnerable nature of drawings that makes them so appealing and illuminating.
As a medium, drawing allows the artist to work in a freer, more direct manner, unfetterred by the difficulties and resistance that some more intractable materials present.
It is a medium of reflection,an instrument of self-reassurance and analysis.
A few years ago,the Berlin Academy of Arts put on an exhibition titled "Drawing is Anogher Kind of Language."
And, indeed, it is a language that is difficult to translate into other idioms. It is, however, possible to get an idea of which rules of "grammer" it operates by. |
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Foundation year: 2003
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Director(s): Jan-Philipp Frühsorge
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