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The Drawing Center: Drawing and its Double | Paolo Canevari - 22 Apr 2011 to 24 June 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Giorgio Ghisi (1520�1582), Giudizio da Michelangelo, 1549
Engraving on copperplate. Dimensions variable Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome. Inv. 201.11. |
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Drawing and its Double Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica April 22�June 24, 2011 Opening Reception: Thursday, April 21, 6�8pm Press Preview: Thursday, April 21, 5�6pm Main Gallery The Drawing Center announces Drawing and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, on view from April 22�June 24, 2011. This landmark exhibition, co-organized with the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica (ING) in Rome, of the Ministerio per I Beni e le Attivit� Culturali, Italy, is comprised of fifty-nine rarely-exhibited engraved metal printing plates dating from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth century, culled exclusively from the collections of one of the world�s most important museums devoted to the Graphic Arts. The exhibition is co-curated by ING curators Ginevra Mariani and Antonella Renzitti, and Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center. Continuing The Drawing Center�s tradition of collaborating with research and archival institutions, this extraordinary partnership with the ING will culminate in a comprehensive presentation of metal printing plates (copper, zinc, lead, steel, and brass) engraved by Italian masters. By presenting the plates on their own, without the resultant prints, this exhibition advocates for a broadly conceived understanding of drawing that addresses several pressing issues in historical and contemporary art, including: the concept of the unique artwork, the translation of an original picture to an engraving, the presentation of unconventional media as drawing, and finally the role of the archive in preserving and disseminating history. Drawing and its Double will include important and iconic works by influential artists and engravers such as Giorgio Ghisi (1520�1582), Lafrery Du Perac (1512�1577), Salvator Rosa (1615�1673), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720�1778), Antonio Canova (1757�1822), Giorgio Morandi (1890�1964), Piero Dorazio (1927�2005), and Achille Perilli (b. 1927). These historical and early modern plates will be presented in The Drawing Center�s Main Gallery. The Drawing Room, situated within the Main Gallery, will feature Decalogo, a recent body of work by Paolo Canevari (b. 1963, Rome) that was originally commissioned and exhibited by the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in October, 2008. ABOUT THE CURATORS Ginevra Mariani is an art historian of the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica del Ministero per i Beni e le Attivit� Culturali, with a particular focus on eighteenth-century printmaking. Currently, she is the director of the Institute�s Calcoteca, where the world�s largest collection of printing plates is stored. She is an editor of the general catalogue of the plates of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the first volume of which was released in June 2010. Until 2006, she directed the Institute�s education department, organizing lectures, exhibitions, and handbooks relating to the ING�s decennial project, Lineamenti di storia delle tecniche (Outlines for History of Technology) (1996�2006), a study of classic engraving techniques. She has taught at Universit� degli studi della Tuscia; Istituto statale d'arte di Urbino; l'Universit� internazionale dell'arte di Venezia; Accademia di belle arti di Venezia; Centro regionale di catalogazione e restauro di Villa Manin a Passariano and has written for numerous ING publications most recently, Giambattista Piranesi, Matrici incise 1743-1753 (Milan, 2010). She is also a contributor to other exhibition catalogues including, Goya e l'Italia (Saragozza, 2008); Clemente XIII Rezzonico. Un papa veneto nella Roma di met� Settecento (Milan, 2008); D�rer e l'Italia (Milan, 2007) and Il Settecento a Roma (Milan, 2005). Antonella Renzitti is an art historian of the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica del Ministero per i Beni e le Attivit� Culturali and specializes in contemporary graphic art and the Italian print workshops of the 1960s. She is the director of the Institute�s Collezione Opere Multimediali (Multimedia Works Collection), where a series of artists� films is preserved. Until 2006, she co-produced lectures, exhibitions, and handbooks related to the ING�s decennial project Lineamenti di storia delle tecniche (Outlines for a History of Technology) (1996�2006), and coordinated both children�s classes and lectures for universities and academies on the subject. She has taught at the Universit� degli studi dell'Aquila and is the editor most recently of publications such as Poesie d'amore di Alfonso Gatto graffite da Giuseppe Caccavale (Rome, 2010); Prospettiva mobile (Rome, 2009); and Paolo Canevari. Decalogo (Rome, 2008). She is also a contributor the handbook of the ING�s own collection; and the exhibition catalogue for Rendering. Traduzione, citazione, contaminazione, rapporti tra I linguaggi dell'arte visiva (Rome, 2010). ABOUT THE ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER LA GRAFICA Established in 1975, the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica is the result of a merger between the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe and the Calcografia Nazionale. Housed in a monumental complex near the Trevi Fountain in Rome, ING�s vast collection is comprised of 23,400 printing plates, 25,000 drawings, more than 152,000 prints, 16,000 photographs, and 25,000 books. Since its inception, ING has been instrumental in promoting the systematic study of printing plates as unique art works, and is dedicated to promoting the study and conservation of historical printmaking techniques. ING�s extraordinary collection of copperplates originated from the De Rossi family, printers that operated in seventeenth-century Rome. In addition to the De Rossi group, there are entire collections of work by Jusepe de Ribera (1591�1652), Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609�1663/65), Salvator Rosa (1615-1673), Giuseppe Vasi (1710�1782), Giovanni Volpato (1740�1803), Carlo Carr� (1881�1966), and Giorgio Morandi (1890�1964). The collection includes many additional copperplates produced by both Italian and non-Italian skilled engravers such as Giovanno Battista Piranesi (1720�1778) and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780�1867), as well as hundreds of new works produced by contemporary artists in and out of Rome. PUBLIC PROGRAMS Saturday, April 23, 2pm An exhibition walk-through led by co-curators Ginevra Mariani and Antonella Renzitti of the ING and Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center. Thursday, April 28, 6:30pm Length x Width x Height: The Sculptural Nature of the Engraved Line Printmaker, Andrew Stein Raftery, will demonstrate the art of engraving and the highly-magnified details of engravings from the past 500 years, including works by Albrecht D�rer, Marcantonio Raimondi, and James Sienna. With a close examination in raking light, the tactile nature of these prints and the individuality of each artist's hand are revealed. Saturday, May 7, 10pm Late night flashlight tour led by Executive Director Brett Littman, presented in conjunction with the Festival of Ideas for the New City (May 4-8, 2011). Thursday, June 9, 6:30pm In the Details: A Closer Look at Intaglio Plates Exhibition walk-through with paper conservator Angela Campbell looking at a selection of intaglio plates. The discussion will focus on plates as artists� matrices as well as on their manufacture and degradation. Presentation by Angela Campbell, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, The Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper at The Metropolitan Museum of Art PUBLICATION In conjunction with Drawing and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica and Paolo Canevari: Decalogo, The Drawing Center will publish an expanded edition in the Drawing Papers series. The publication will be 182 pages in length and will feature 70 color plates, as well as texts by Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, Antonella Maria Fusco, Director of the ING, and curators Ginevra Mariani and Antonella Renzitti. CREDITS Drawing and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and Robert Lehman Foundation. Additional support is provided by The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, C.G. Boerner LLC, New York, Vincent J. Buonanno, Arthur Ross Foundation and Harris Schrank. Paolo Canevari Decalogo April 22�June 24, 2011 Opening Reception: Thursday, April 21, 6�8pm Press Preview: Thursday, April 21, 5�6pm Drawing Room The Drawing Center announces Paolo Canevari: Decalogo, on view in a specially designed Drawing Room located within the Main Gallery from April 22�June 24, 2011. This recent body of work by Paolo Canevari (b. 1963, Rome) was originally commissioned and exhibited by the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica (ING) in Rome in October 2008. Comprised of ten large-scale etched plates, this presentation extends the thesis of the concurrent exhibition, Drawing and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, by displaying plates without their resultant prints. Decalogo, the Italian shorthand for the Ten Commandments and perhaps the most well-known social contract or �rules to live by,� continues Canevari�s investigation into how dynamic imagery can reveal political and social crises. The plates reverberate on both technical and emotional levels, and lay bare the artist�s acute and perceptive understanding of our times. This exhibition is co-curated by ING curator, Antonella Renzitti and Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center. Although these plates have been used to create a series of prints, Canevari conceived the plates as artworks themselves. Once functional, they now have bent edges and are mounted to the wall, nullifying their potential to be archived or reprinted. While Canevari employed traditional engraving techniques, his approach is unique; he uses drawn imagery that can be �read� on the plates� etched surfaces rather than appearing in the negative as with conventional printing plates. Each work depicts an iconic image mined from Canevari�s visual lexicon and from his previous work in video and installation. Six of the ten plates show conflagrations: a gun, skull, tree, dress on a cross, the Roman Coliseum, and a copy of Hitler�s Mein Kampf, all set aflame. Such gothic images of torched objects and places provide an opportunity for Canevari to capture the fleeting kinetic energy that is released when something burns. Cultural icons are destroyed, evoking notions of censorship and repression. The remaining four plates show, respectively, an ominous tire swing on a hangman�s wooden frame, a dog chained to a tire upon which �god� is written, a Bible with a gun placed on it, and a man poised to catch a falling bomb. These more static images are meditations on personal freedom, destiny, and the harrowing nature of conflict and torture. Through Canevari�s visceral, provocative, and direct iconography, Decalogo addresses the effects of organized religion on society and socio-political control. ABOUT THE ARTIST Paolo Canevari was born in Rome in 1963 and lives in New York. Since his first solo show in Rome in 1991, Canevari has created works based on his background and education as an artist raised in a classical culture and a family of artists. Canevari works in a range of media, including animation, drawing, video, sculpture and installation. His work is represented in public and private collections throughout the world and has been exhibited at major institutions internationally. Venues include the XIII Esposizione la Quadriennale d�Arte Rome in 2000, the Palazzo delle Papesse-Siena in 2001, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin in 2001, the Center for academic Resources-Chulalongkorn University-Bangkok in 2001, the Liverpool Biennial in 2004, Johannesburg Art Gallery-Contemporary Art Museum-Johannesburg in 2005, the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art-Berlin in 2006, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art-New York in 2004/2007, the MART Museo d�Arte Moderna e Contemporanea-Rovereto in 2005, the Macro, Museo d�Arte Contemporanea-Rome in 2007, the 52ma Esposizione Internazionale d�Arte la Biennale di Venezia, Venice in 2007, the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome in 2008, the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2008, the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 2009, as well as Centro Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, and Galleria Nazionale d�Arte Moderna, Rome, both in 2010. A monograph on Canevari�s work, curated by Germano Celant, was published by Electa in 2010. PUBLIC PROGRAMS Saturday, May 7, 10pm Late night flashlight tour led by Executive Director Brett Littman, presented in conjunction with the Festival of Ideas for the New City (May 4-8, 2011). Thursday, May 26, 6:30pm Paolo Canevari will lead a walk-through of the exhibition and will discuss his work. CREDITS Paolo Canevari: Decalogo is made possible in part by members of the Drawing Room, a patron circle founded to support innovative exhibitions presented in The Drawing Center�s project gallery: Devon Dikeou and Fernando Troya, Rhiannon Kubicka, Judith Levinson Oppenheimer, Elizabeth R. Miller and James G. Dinan, Maartje Elisabeth Oldenburg, The Speyer Family Foundation, Inc., Louisa Stude Sarofim, and Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee. HOURS & ACCESSIBILITY Hours are Wednesday, 12pm�6pm, Thursday, 12pm�8pm, and Friday�Sunday, 12pm�6pm (closed Mondays and Tuesdays). The Drawing Center is wheelchair accessible. MISSION STATEMENT The Drawing Center is the only not-for-profit fine arts institution in the country to focus solely on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary. It was established in 1977 to provide opportunities for emerging and under-recognized artists; to demonstrate the significance and diversity of drawings throughout history; and to stimulate public dialogue on issues of art and culture. For further information and images, please contact Emily Gaynor Public Relations and Marketing Officer 212 219 2166 x119 | [email protected] 35 WOOSTER STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10013 T 212 |
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