Spain NOW! - Nulla Dies Sine Linea, Contemporary Spanish Drawing
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Pedro Enrique Alarcon, Corazon (2008). Series 'I don't think you know what pain is' |
Nulla Dies Sine Linea, Contemporary Spanish Drawing
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Info
8 Nov - 3 Dec 12 Tues-Sun 12:00 - 18:00 Private view: 8 Nov, 6.30pm
Contact
silvia@spain-now.org.uk
Silvia Terron
Address
http://www.spain-now.org.uk/events/nulla-dies-sine-linea-dibujo-español-contemporáneo
The Crypt Gallery - St Pancras Church
(Entrance in Duke's Rd) Euston Road
London NW1 2BA
United Kingdom
Nulla Dies Sine Linea, Contemporary Spanish Drawing
Spain NOW! brings to London Nulla Dies Sine Linea (not one day without a line), an exhibition curated by Blanca Soto that takes us on a journey through contemporary Spanish drawing with the work of 23 artists from across Spain with different trajectories and different ways of approaching drawing. The variety and originality of these pieces gives us an idea of the heterogeneity of Spanish drawing to be found at present.
Is there anything more basic but at the same time more powerful in art than the drawing of a simple line? Drawing is the visible trace of a mental seismograph that is in a state of constant activity and actualisation. With this in mind, Nulla Dies Sine Linea comprises a wide variety of techniques, from the most simple and rudimentary to new technologies applied to drawing.
The artists featured in the exhibition surrender, without excuses or 'guilt complexes', to the exercise of drawing, not because they seek sketches or rough outlines for other pieces of larger format or in other techniques, but because they understand that through drawing they can express what they want to with total freedom. For them, drawing is a fertile form of plastic thought.
