DRAWINGS TODAY

6 APRIL-13 JUNE

Drawings Today includes a total of 31 works by thirteen Spanish and international artists who all share an interest in line. The works are the outcome of the rich and complex evolution that took place in drawing over the last century to the point where it has now become a category in its own right in contemporary art.

Throughout the 20th century, drawing has developed from its status as a mere working tool for disciplines such as painting, sculpture and architecture in order to become a creative language with a perspective and raison d'être of its own.

Drawings Today will present the most contemporary manifestation of this development through a very surprising group of works characterized by its formal originality and its efficiency in the transmission of some contemporary social themes, such as violence, personality affirmation and changes in the landscape.

The traditional pencil-on-paper combination is accompanied by others whose results will surprise the onlooker due to their originality and efficacy in terms of their composition of form and meaning. Mural drawing, drawing on In the works displayed, figuration prevails over abstraction. Particularly noteworthy is the original use of materials not commonly employed in figurative drawings, such as acrylic paint, tempera and marker pen, as well as the more usual pencil, combined with supports, many of them large-sized, which are even more unexpected in this kind of creative work, including methacrylate, video, wood and mirrors.

By combining these materials with their use of the line, Gemma París reproduces enigmatic women without faces; Rafael G. Bianchi creates an entire structure of signs that point to feelings such as grief or to death; Ester Partegás reflects her most private thoughts by means of a confrontation with the public space; Cristina Lucas considers the irrationality of human actions; Pablo Alonso arouses a sense of surprise in the midst of the everyday; Yehudit Sasportas probes the possibilities of the simple line in landscape work; Hans Hemmert reveals the person who wants to be named; SEO explores textures and chiaroscuros; Bernardí Roig presents someone who closes himself off from the outside world; Catie de Balmann draws outlines that verge on being sculptures; Stéphanie Nava investigates the frontier between interior and exterior; and Mónica Fuster and Nicholas Woods construct a mysterious, transparent wood.

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