Drawing as a Research Space
Division of Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava cordially invites you to an exhibition at the Slovak Institute in Warsaw.
Slovak Institute, ul. Krzywe Koło 12/14a, Warsaw, Poland.
Duration of the exhibition: until April 20, 2025
The exhibition series Drawing as a Research Space presents a selection of works by artists teaching at the Division of Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
The thematic range as well as the formal approaches to the medium are diverse; this variety of artistic expression reveals not only the limits of drawing, but also the shifting of its boundaries, its expanded field. The title of the series is seemingly paradoxical; drawing is associated with the basic element of the line, the linear trace of a tool. Drawing—in the original sense of the word—does not enter three-dimensional space, but is connected with the surface. Through the element of line and its shape, dynamics, and thickness, it materialises the process of thinking; it is a unit expressing the relationship between the world and its representation. It leads to an understanding of what is seen through the projection of an object into a form defined by drawing. It is the foundation for the development of all artistic, design, and architectural disciplines, and the basis on which these disciplines build their possibilities of artistic interpretation of the world. But how can one think through drawing? What new artistic space opens up through an understanding of drawing?
Artists:
- Pavol Truben, Stanislav Bubán, Emöke Vargová, Marek Kvetan, Martin Derner, Žofia Dubová, Martin Schwarz.
Curator:
- Ján Kralovič
Graphic design:
- Martin Derner
The exhibition was supported by the AFAD internal grant system.
