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White Cube Hoxton Square was pleased to present Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action. Looking at the pivotal role of drawing in current practice, the exhibition features over 200 works on paper by some of the most significant artists working today.
The German term 'Kupferstichkabinett' describes the special collection of prints and drawings within a museum, 'kabinett' originally deriving from the small space within a castle where personal collections were kept by the wealthy and aristocratic. These regal compilations of art on paper were generally encyclopaedic in scope and served as the precursors to public museum collections.
As a medium, drawing covers a range of attitudes in art, from the immediate, intimate and subjective to investigative, analytical and narrative. Joseph Beuys described it as 'a thinking medium', both as a catalyst for processing thought, and as work in its own right. This selection of drawings and prints traces a range of subjects, including: 'Ideas Generation', where artists use the immediacy of drawing as a means to prepare and refine a concept; 'Systems, Architectonics and Abstraction', in which predetermined rules, structures and methods govern the form of the image; 'Expressions of Anatomy', where intimate portrayals of the figure assume a central position; 'Graphic Narratives / Surreal Legacies', featuring imagery from the fantastically bizarre to the comically illustrative; and 'Historia', which examines how drawing has been used to question the role of photography in the mediation and construction of historical memory.
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action featured work by 55 artists:
Franz Ackermann
Darren Almond
Miroslaw Balka
Georg Baselitz
Jean-Michel Basquiat
David Batchelor
Joseph Beuys
Ernesto Caivano
Patrick Caulfield
Jake & Dinos Chapman
Chuck Close
John Currin
Berlinde De Bruyckere
Tacita Dean
Peter Doig
Tracey Emin
Lucian Freud
Antony Gormley
Mark Grotjahn
Richard Hamilton
David Hammons
Mona Hatoum
Damien Hirst
David Hockney
Christian Holstad
Rachel Howard
Gary Hume
Mika Kato
Anselm Kiefer
Rachel Kneebone
Friedrich Kunath
Michael Landy
Liza Lou
Christian Marclay
Kris Martin
Julie Mehretu
Harland Miller
Sarah Morris
Bruce Nauman
Chris Ofili
Gabriel Orozco
Damián Ortega
Richard Phillips
Richard Prince
Tobias Putrih
Jessica Rankin
Robin Rhode
Raqib Shaw
Neal Tait
Fred Tomaselli
Gavin Turk
Luc Tuymans
Rachel Whiteread
Cerith Wyn Evans
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski |