Exhibition “Gribouillages” at the Cabinet des dessins Jean Bonna des Beaux Arts de Paris

Bringing together more than one hundred and fifty original works from the Renaissance to the contemporary era, Gribouillage / Scarabocchio highlights one of the most repressed and least controlled aspects of drawing practice. By addressing the many facets of “doodling”, from the smeared sketch on the reverse of the paintings to the doodling at work, the exhibition reveals how these experimental, transgressive, regressive or liberating graphic gestures, which seem to obey no law, have always punctuated the history of artistic creation.