Artist Talk for Drawn Apart East

{Artist.name}, Ed Pien, Ben Long, Leo Fitzmaurice, Kate Hawkins, Terry Smith, Chloe Steele, Lucy Day
23.Jun.07
2-3pm

Curators Lucy Day

Contemporary Art Projects
Drawn Apart East
20 Rivington St
London EC2A 3DU
020 7739 1743
info@caprojects.com
Tube Old Street, Liverpool Street, Shoreditch / Hoxton

Using Drawn Apart East as a backdrop this conversation will explore the relationship of drawing to artistic practice.

Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman present the work of eight artists who use drawing as an integral but not exclusive element of their practice.

Drawn Apart provides a platform to consider the relationships between drawings by old masters and that of contemporary artists. Part I takes place in the East End of London, at Contemporary Art Projects, in the heart of the contemporary art world whilst Part II is being hosted by Day & Faber, an old master drawings gallery that has for the past thirty six years, under the direction of Richard Day and later in partnership with James Faber, exhibited and sold some of the best and most rare examples of work by 15th – 18th Century Italian, Dutch and French masters.

Part I : Drawn Apart East will show works by eight contemporary artists, Kate Davis, Lucy Day, Leo Fitzmaurice, Kate Hawkins, Ben Long, Ed Pien, Terry Smith and Chloe Steele, whilst Part II will offer the opportunity to see a selected group of contemporary works alongside old masters drawings currently in the Day & Faber collection.

The exhibiting artists are predominantly known for their other works in sculpture, installation and performance but all consistently use drawing to examine, explore and interrogate new ideas. The deliberate play of East and West brings into relief the different approaches to selling drawings however the approaches to understanding the language of drawing could not be more similar. A deep appreciation of the setting down of an idea, however random, innocuous or completely considered can be seen in the work of Ed Pien as well as that of Guercino. Similarly the extraordinary composure of Kate Davis’s work, studies for and from her video work as well as her more recent pinprick pieces , echoes the extraordinary handling of his medium that Boucher so clearly demonstrates. However, the ease at which one can make direct technical comparisons belies the complexity of the relationship. Where Kate Hawkins deliberately examines contemporary issues of etiquette, works by Tiepolo, Rembrandt and Durer show how clearly through their drawings they were challenging and confronting artistic convention. Each of the contemporary artists that we have selected for this show have an understanding of drawing that has a significant and profound effect on the rest of their practice. Drawn Apart is a project space for ideas and presents the viewer with a collection of works that are challenging, stimulating, beautiful and extraordinary.