E. H. Gombrich’s ‘The Story of Art’

"There really is no such things as Art, There are only artists."

Ernst Hans Gombrich, was an Austrian-born art historian and writer. He is best known for his work "The Story of Art," a comprehensive survey of the history of art from prehistoric times to the modern era, which has become one of the most widely read and influential art books of all time.

Gombrich's writings have had a significant impact on the field of art history, as he sought to make art accessible and understandable to a broader audience. He emphasized the importance of viewing art within its historical and cultural context and challenged traditional assumptions about artistic development and aesthetics.

"There really is no such thing as Art. The sentiment expressed in the quote aligns with Gombrich's approach to art history, which emphasizes the role of the artist and the subjective nature of artistic interpretation.

Découvrez le nouveau comité de sélection de l'édition 2012






Le Comité de Sélection réuni par Philippe Piguet, directeur artistique du Salon est composé pour l'édition 2012 de :

Alexandra Fau, commissaire d'exposition, critique d'art et enseignante.

Sandra Hegedus Mulliez, collectionneur. 


Marc Donnadieu, conservateur en charge des collections d'art contemporain au LaM de Villeneuve-d'Ascq.


Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective / press release



Richard Serra, Taraval Beach, 1977
Paintstick on Belgian linen, Shown installed at the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Whitney Biennial, Collection of the artist, Richard Serra © 2010 Artist Rights Society (ARS),
New York

Photo: BeVan Davies


March 2, 2012 – June 10, 2012

The first-ever retrospective of the artist’s drawings, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, will be the first major one-person exhibition organized by the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center.

Though his sculptures have been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions, Richard Serra’s drawings – crucial to his work for more than forty years – have never received a critical overview. This exhibition of works, drawn from major European and American public and private collections, will trace Serra’s investigation of drawing as an activity both independent of and linked to his sculptural practice. Organized chronologically, it will address significant shifts in concept, materials, and scale, and will culminate with new, never-before-exhibited large-scale works.

In the early 1970s Serra drew on paper primarily with ink, charcoal, and lithographic crayon, using such sketches to explore form and perceptual relations between an envisioned sculpture and the viewer. Over the years they evolved into autonomous works of art, bold forms created with black paintstick that exploded beyond the boundaries of the paper support.

In the mid 1970s, Serra made the first of his monumentally scaled Installation Drawings, bringing radical scale and technique to an architectural context. Working on site, he attached Belgian linen directly to the wall and with vigorous and repetitive gestures applied paintstick that had been melted down and recast in large, heavy blocks.

Over the last twenty-five years Serra has continued to invent new drawing techniques. In the late 1980s he explored how to further articulate the tension of weight and gravity by placing pairs of overlapping sheets of paper saturated with paintstick in horizontal and vertical compositions. In his most recent work he has embarked on numerous series with a remarkable variety of surface effects.

Serra is among a significant group of artists whose transformative work irrevocably changed the practice and definition of modernist drawing, and challenged drawing’s role in the traditional hierarchy of media.

Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, is organized by curators Bernice Rose, Michelle White and Gary Garrels and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring several original, scholarly texts.

The exhibition will travel to
The Metropolitan Museum of Art April 13 - August 28, 2011,
followed by The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art October 15, 2011- January 16, 2012.

This exhibition is generously supported by Laura and John Arnold, National Endowment for the Arts, Sotheby’s, Eddie Allen and Chinhui Juhn, the Frances Dittmer Family Foundation, Paul and Janet Hobby, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, the Four Seasons Hotel Houston, Clare Casademont and Michael Metz, Invesco, Janie C. Lee and David B. Warren, eEvents Group LLC, Scott and Judy Nyquist, Michael Zilkha, and the City of Houston.
The Menil Collection would also like to thank Gagosian Gallery for graciously providing funds toward the production of the accompanying catalogue. 

http://www.menil.org/exhibitions/RichardSerraDrawinginRetrospect.php

claudioadami @ Patrick Heide / press release


Patrick Heide Contemporary Art is pleased to present “Ora, ad allora" (translated “now, by then”), the first solo exhibition in the UK of Italian artist claudioadami. As part of a series of three exhibitions featuring artists that work with systematic drawing defined by a conceptual approach, claudioadami is the second artist after David Connearn, to be followed by gallery artist Isabel Albrecht at the beginning of June.


‘Ora, ad allora’ gives an overview of claudioadami’s practice over the past decade and highlights his concept of writing as drawing and its relevance as a medium to register the transcience of time.As part of a series of three exhibitions featuring artists that work with systematic drawing defined by a conceptual approach, claudioadami is the second artist after David Connearn, to be followed by gallery artist Isabel Albrecht at the beginning of June.
‘Ora, ad allora’ gives an overview of claudioadami’s practice over the past decade and highlights his concept of writing as drawing and its relevance as a medium to register the transcience of time.


claudioadami has been dedicated to his drawing project since the early 80’s, when he started to transcribe texts by Samuel Beckett. Almost every day since, claudioadami covers white surfaces in regular minute black writings, line by line, its scripture leaning to the right. claudioadami then overwrites his sentences so many times that the words as such disappear to become a succession of frayed and densely scribbled thick black bands.Since abandoning Beckett, Adami writes down whatever thoughts come to his head: daily tasks, poems, streams of consciousness, anything. He then dissolves these thoughts by overwriting them to a stage beyond recognition.
The meaning of the words, the narrative gives way to an abstract representation. The communication becomes obsolete.
His scribblings translate random thoughts that evolve into an obsessive, repetitive gesture emanating the fascination of the trickling movement in an hourglasses or the ceaseless rolling motion of the sea.


The London exhibition features a wide spectrum of works on paper from 2000 up to today, ranging from notebooks and notepads with daily recordings of his scribblings on individually dated single pages, to medium and larger formats with whole weeks and months of Adami’s mark-making on single or successive pages.
In the main gallery space claudioadami’s most time intensive installation, ’Campionario’, will be on display. The result of an ongoing project of over three years (2000-2003), the installation is composed of card and aluminium boxes of different sizes and shapes, each labelled with a start and an end date, every box containing various time segments of claudioadami’s tracings.
 

claudioadami, the artist’s name in one word, is not just a formal choice. It is a manifesto of his intention to describe the radical and essential message of his art and his existence. A continuum where art and life, now and then, space and time perfectly coincide and coexist.

claudioadami was born in Città di Castello (Italy) in 1951. He exhibited widely in Italy, in particular at the Mart museum in Rovererto and MACRO in Rome, where he lives and works.

The exhibition of claudioadami at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art is staged in collaboration and exchange with Studio d’Arte Contemporanea Casagrande in Rome, which is currently hosting the exhibition ‘Deflection’ featuring works of gallery artist Hans Kotter.


Patrick Heide Contemporary Art

www.patrickheide.com

Paper A-Z / Sue Scott Gallery

Sue Scott Gallery is pleased to announce Paper A-Z, opening March 16th, and running through April 22, 2011.  Featuring more than seventy five established, mid-career and emerging artists from around the country, this exhibition showcases multidisciplinary approaches to works on paper that examine and celebrate this basic language of the artistic process.  “A-Z” implies linearity, but the heart of the show is a constellation of parts that drifts off the alphabet, a collection of phonemes—gaffs, folds, stutters, perfect pronunciations and alliterations. 

Drawing naturally emerges from an immediate relationship of the artist's hand with the instrument or medium. This arrangement can invite risk and produce spontaneous and often unintentional results.  This is drawing’s clearest articulation: the serif ‘a’ of the alphabet. This exhibition also looks beyond this customary notion of drawing, while preserving the traditional support of paper  - experimental prints, collage, paper construction, hanging paper sculptures, cast paper and books.   The show considers the role of paper, not only as a vehicle of mediums, but as a medium itself.

Rachelle Agundes, Olive Ayhens, Glen Baldridge, Brian Belott, Kristopher Benedict, Sadie Benning, Ben Berlow, Willie Birch, Robert Bordo, Katherine Bowling, Robert Brinker, Kadar Brock, Melissa Brown, Brendan Cass, Amanda Church, Carol Cole, Ian Cooper, Nick Cortese, Carl D'Alvia, Shoshana Dentz, Jessica Dickinson, Lesley Dill, Kim Dorland, Franklin Evans, Amy Feldman, Theresa Friess, Jackie Gendel, Josephine Halvorson, Jane Hammond, Jonathan Hartshorn, Daniel Heidkamp, Fredrik Hofwander, Lisa Hoke, Katie Holten, Sharon Horvath, Grant Huang, Jason Jagel, Ezra Johnson, Mary Jones, Pam Joseph, David Kramer, Peter LaBier, Sylvan Lionni, Noah Lyon, Stephen Maine, Linda Matalon, Sarah Mattes, Doreen McCarthy, Suzanne McClelland, Tom McGrath, Kirsi Mikkola, Malcolm Morley, Lucas Moran, Carrie Moyer, Rob Nadeau, John Newman, Todd Norsten, Matthew Northridge, Thomas Nozkowski, Toshi Oka, Paul Pagk, Mr. Peanut Man, Debra Pearlman, Sheila Pepe, Gary Petersen, Halsey Rodman, Sherman Sam, Sara Sanders, Katia Santibanez, David Scanavino, David Shapiro, James Siena, Kiki Smith, Jane South, Pat Steir, Barbara Takenaga, Craig Taylor, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Webster, Stephen Westfall, Roger White, Letha Wilson, Tamara Zahaykevich and Michael Zahn.

http://www.suescottgallery.com/exhibitions/view/paper-a-z