Private view: Wednesday 9th March, 6- 8pm
Sat 16 June, 2-6pm: Performances by Anna Barham, Pierre Bismuth and Peter
Kubelka and film screenings.
William Anastasi, Carl Andre, Fiona Banner, Anna Barham, Pierre Bismuth,
Juliana Borinski, Marcel Broodthaers, Stefan Brüggemann, Tony Conrad,
Mekhitar Garabedian, Dean Hughes, Wim Janssen, Peter Kubelka, Antony
McCall, László Moholy-Nagy, Brian O’Doherty, Man Ray, Paul Sharits,
Thomas Zummer
Graphology considers the range of graphic devices that artists, working
across the disciplines of film, photography, painting and sculpture, have
used to mediate direct experience. The scope of the exhibition reaches
back to the beginning of the 20th century and includes artists working
today with techniques that translate direct experience into different forms
of systematised representation, between the trace and the sign, between
writing and drawing.
The exhibition focuses on the human hand as a living seismograph of inner
life, but with extra attention to the ‘mechanical unconscious of the
machine’ which imposes itself on the human eye. It considers how graphic
techniques of reproduction start to live their own lives.
Automatic writing spans a long tradition, with an obvious strong moment
during the heyday of Surrealism, as illustrated by the image of the
typewriter on the cover of the first issue of ‘La Révolution
Surréaliste’ (1924). This is typical of the range of techniques that
have been employed by artists and writers to visualise their ideas,
allowing for a particular tension between the hand and the medium, between
automatism and automation. This exhibition investigates the ways in which
drawing intersects with typography, photography, film and
computer-graphics.
PUBLICATION
Graphology: drawing from automatism and automation will be published by
Drawing Room
*Image above:
Courtesy Jan Mot, Brussels
