Talks and performances at the 19th edition
Curators, institutional directors and independent directors are invited to explore essential themes in the landscape of contemporary drawing and art in general. A privileged moment for the meeting of contemporary drawing professionals from all over the world, the fair gives the floor to speakers specialized in contemporary art around talks and artist interviews.
Thursday, March 26
Moderator: Joana P. R. Neves (show artistic director)
Guests: Lucie Ménard (curator), Guénaelle de Carbonnières (artist) and Sarah Navasse (artist)
More information to follow.
Language: French
Moderation : coming soon
Guests: Grégory Desauvage(vice-president of the Collectif international de l'Art faber), Emmanuel Tibloux (director of the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs) and Laure Tixier (artist).
More information to follow.
Language: French
À bout portant is a three-stage drawing performance premiering during Drawing Now. In addition to an assortment of drawing media, tools and techniques, Morelli is assisted by his Belt Heads. Made from used belts, these sculptural prostheses have been both the subjects and objects of his intersectional artistic practice for over twenty-five years. Working horizontally directly on the floor on large sheets of paper, gestures of embodied drawing spread over time onto adjacent walls. Enigmatic and strange in nature, the work is based on an improvised approach to movement and the creation of traces. Who draws what... and why? Sometimes narrative, the work remains conceptual while exploring various types of physical and psychological constraints.
Friday, March 27
Lise Terdjman a multidisciplinary artist-researcher, will present her performance Body letters #2 from the series From my head to my feets by my hands, given in 2021 for the first time in Copenhagen. Body letters #2 is both a drawn score and an alphabet book, linking the letter to the gesture of drawing and the movement of the body. The performance puts into action this score inhabited by the history of modern dance, with references to Mary Wygman and Valeska Gert. This series of drawings condenses a repertoire of forms ranging from writing to figures, in an anthropometric relationship to the artist's body. For Lise TerdjmanThe gesture of tracing becomes a critical tool for re-reading the history of art and modern dance. The artist interprets the letters drawn by the audience, like a jazz score at a given moment, between improvisation and transcription, linking language and body movement in space.
Moderator: Joana P. R. Neves (show artistic director)
Guests: Domitille Bertrand (curator), Baha Kocabey (visual artist) and Kid Creole & Boogie (visual artists).
More information to follow.
Language: French
Moderator: Joana P. R. Neves (show artistic director)
Guests: Ricardo Nicolau (Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal) and Irina Zucca Alessandrelli (Fondazione Ramo, Milan, Italy)
More information to follow.
Language: English
À bout portant is a three-stage drawing performance premiering during Drawing Now. In addition to an assortment of drawing media, tools and techniques, Morelli is assisted by his Belt Heads. Made from used belts, these sculptural prostheses have been both the subjects and objects of his intersectional artistic practice for over twenty-five years. Working horizontally directly on the floor on large sheets of paper, gestures of embodied drawing spread over time onto adjacent walls. Enigmatic and strange in nature, the work is based on an improvised approach to movement and the creation of traces. Who draws what... and why? Sometimes narrative, the work remains conceptual while exploring various types of physical and psychological constraints.
Saturday, March 28
Lise Terdjman a multidisciplinary artist-researcher, will present her performance Body letters #2 from the series From my head to my feets by my hands, given in 2021 for the first time in Copenhagen. Body letters #2 is both a drawn score and an alphabet book, linking the letter to the gesture of drawing and the movement of the body. The performance puts into action this score inhabited by the history of modern dance, with references to Mary Wygman and Valeska Gert. This series of drawings condenses a repertoire of forms ranging from writing to figures, in an anthropometric relationship to the artist's body. For Lise TerdjmanThe gesture of tracing becomes a critical tool for re-reading the history of art and modern dance. The artist interprets the letters drawn by the audience, like a jazz score at a given moment, between improvisation and transcription, linking language and body movement in space.
Moderator: Joana P. R. Neves (show artistic director)
Guest: Manuel Barreto
More information to follow.
Language: French
Moderator: Joana P. R. Neves (show artistic director)
Guests: Isabel Seligman (British MuseumLondon, United Kingdom) and Bige Orer (Curator independent, Istanbul, Turkey and London, United Kingdom)
More information to follow.
Language: English
À bout portant is a three-stage drawing performance premiering during Drawing Now. In addition to an assortment of drawing media, tools and techniques, Morelli is assisted by his Belt Heads. Made from used belts, these sculptural prostheses have been both the subjects and objects of his intersectional artistic practice for over twenty-five years. Working horizontally directly on the floor on large sheets of paper, gestures of embodied drawing spread over time onto adjacent walls. Enigmatic and strange in nature, the work is based on an improvised approach to movement and the creation of traces. Who draws what... and why? Sometimes narrative, the work remains conceptual while exploring various types of physical and psychological constraints.
