Page 12 - The Documenta issue of World of Art magazine (2002)

moma the museum of modern art new york

eXhiBition oF
contemPorary
draWings eXPlores
the resurgence and

rich diVersity oF the
medium

DraWinG nOW:
EIGHT PROPOSITIONS
Features more than
250 contemPorary
draWings, including

three site-sPeciFic
Works

octoBer 17, 2002, - january 6, 2003

kai althoFF

uNTITLED, 2000. WATERCOLOR ON PAPER 11 ½ x 12½ IN / 30
x 32 CM., PRIVATE COLLECTION. PHOTO COuRTESy GALERIE Drawing Now: Eight Propositions features more than
NEu, BERLIN 250 contemporary drawings, including three site-
specific works, by a diverse group of 26 young artists,
laura oWens some well-known, others relative newcomers, who
uNTITLED, 2000. CuT AND PASTEL COLORED PAPERS, have seized this most basic of mediums and pushed it
WATERCOLOR, ACRyLIC, AND PENCIL ON PAPER, 39 ¼ x 27½
to the forefront of contemporary art. The works are
IN / 99,4 x 70,2 CM., COLLECTION THE MuSEuM OF MODERN
arranged in eight groupings, or ‘propositions,” which
ART, NEW yORK.PuRCHASED WITH FuNDS By THE FRIENDS
serve as a loose framework for the consideration of
OF CONTEMPORARy DRAWING © LAuRA OWENS, PHOTO
drawing today.
COuRTESy SADIE COLES Hq, LONDON
The propositions explore the tradition of descriptive
drawing of natural phenomena, the tradition of
ornament, the conventions of engineering and
architectural drawings, visionary architecture, mental
maps that aim to explain not a specific place but an
entire state of being, vernacular illustration, comic
book and animation traditions, and portraiture,
from fashion illustration to nineteenth-century pencil
portraits.

The three new site-specific wall drawings are by Los
Carpinteros, Julie Mehretu, and Richard Wright. The
other artists in the exhibition are Franz Ackermann,
Kai Althoff, Kevin Appel, Russell Crotty, John Currin,
Toba Khedoori, Graham Little, Mark Manders,
Barry McGee, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara,
Paul Noble, Jockum Nordstmm, Chris Ofili, Laura
Owens, Jennifer Pastor, Elizabeth Peyton, Neo Rauch,
Matthew Ritchie, Ugo Rondinone, Shahzia Sikander,
David Thorpe, and Kara Walker

Laura Hoptman, Guest Curator

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