A Moving Plan B: Chapter One
Sep 16, 2010 - Oct 31, 2010
This exhibition will simultaneously expose rare and unseen works by a wide range of international creators and provide insight into the working processes of Thomas Scheibitz, one of Germany鈥檚 most important contemporary artists.
The Drawing Room has invited Scheibitz to curate its third artist-curated exhibition. A Moving Plan B for Chapter 1 reveals the motivation and inspiration behind Scheibitz鈥檚 paintings, sculptures and works on paper and introduces various approaches to drawing as used by artists, architects, film-makers and writers over the past 50 years. The exhibition will include sketches, drawings, notes and also working journals not normally made available for public viewing.
Drawing occupies a very important position within the working processes of Scheibitz, providing the connecting link between the idea and its execution. He is interested in how creators of different disciplines use drawing and sketches to transport personal ideas and thought processes into the public domain. In his own work Scheibitz draws inspiration from a wide range of sources including films, literature, music, art history and visual details that he encounters in daily life. These are harnessed through the camera, sketch-book and cuttings from printed material. A process of sketching and drawing transforms this visual material into the lexicon of forms that inhabit his paintings and sculptures.
Scheibitz has selected drawings that possess autonomy and convey meaning beyond the often very constrained and specific conditions within which they were made. All of the works display an attention to materials and form that distinguish his own practice.
As well as artists of his own generation - Dirk Bell, Thomas Demand, Manfred Pernice, Andreas Slominski and Peter Strau脽 鈥� Scheibitz has also selected those of an older generation born in East Germany - Carl Friedrich Claus, Hermann Gl枚ckner, Manfred Kuttner, A.R. Penck and Eugen Sch枚nebeck. Sketches and drawings from those working beyond the fine arts such as the Yugoslavian architect Bogdan Bogdanovich (b.1922) and the German writer Arno Schmidt (1914-79) provide an insight into the artists eclectic interests. Tacita Dean (b. UK,1965), Mathew Hale (b. UK, 1962), 脰yvind Fahlstr枚m (b.Brazil 1928,d.Sweden 1976), the structuralist film-maker Paul Sharits (USA, 1943-93) and two or three more artists yet to be finally confirmed will also be included.
The Drawing Room has invited Scheibitz to curate its third artist-curated exhibition. A Moving Plan B for Chapter 1 reveals the motivation and inspiration behind Scheibitz鈥檚 paintings, sculptures and works on paper and introduces various approaches to drawing as used by artists, architects, film-makers and writers over the past 50 years. The exhibition will include sketches, drawings, notes and also working journals not normally made available for public viewing.
Drawing occupies a very important position within the working processes of Scheibitz, providing the connecting link between the idea and its execution. He is interested in how creators of different disciplines use drawing and sketches to transport personal ideas and thought processes into the public domain. In his own work Scheibitz draws inspiration from a wide range of sources including films, literature, music, art history and visual details that he encounters in daily life. These are harnessed through the camera, sketch-book and cuttings from printed material. A process of sketching and drawing transforms this visual material into the lexicon of forms that inhabit his paintings and sculptures.
Scheibitz has selected drawings that possess autonomy and convey meaning beyond the often very constrained and specific conditions within which they were made. All of the works display an attention to materials and form that distinguish his own practice.
As well as artists of his own generation - Dirk Bell, Thomas Demand, Manfred Pernice, Andreas Slominski and Peter Strau脽 鈥� Scheibitz has also selected those of an older generation born in East Germany - Carl Friedrich Claus, Hermann Gl枚ckner, Manfred Kuttner, A.R. Penck and Eugen Sch枚nebeck. Sketches and drawings from those working beyond the fine arts such as the Yugoslavian architect Bogdan Bogdanovich (b.1922) and the German writer Arno Schmidt (1914-79) provide an insight into the artists eclectic interests. Tacita Dean (b. UK,1965), Mathew Hale (b. UK, 1962), 脰yvind Fahlstr枚m (b.Brazil 1928,d.Sweden 1976), the structuralist film-maker Paul Sharits (USA, 1943-93) and two or three more artists yet to be finally confirmed will also be included.
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This exhibition will simultaneously expose rare and unseen works by a wide range of international creators and provide insight into the working processes of Thomas Scheibitz, one of Germany鈥檚 most important contemporary artists.
The Drawing Room has invited Scheibitz to curate its third artist-curated exhibition. A Moving Plan B for Chapter 1 reveals the motivation and inspiration behind Scheibitz鈥檚 paintings, sculptures and works on paper and introduces various approaches to drawing as used by artists, architects, film-makers and writers over the past 50 years. The exhibition will include sketches, drawings, notes and also working journals not normally made available for public viewing.
Drawing occupies a very important position within the working processes of Scheibitz, providing the connecting link between the idea and its execution. He is interested in how creators of different disciplines use drawing and sketches to transport personal ideas and thought processes into the public domain. In his own work Scheibitz draws inspiration from a wide range of sources including films, literature, music, art history and visual details that he encounters in daily life. These are harnessed through the camera, sketch-book and cuttings from printed material. A process of sketching and drawing transforms this visual material into the lexicon of forms that inhabit his paintings and sculptures.
Scheibitz has selected drawings that possess autonomy and convey meaning beyond the often very constrained and specific conditions within which they were made. All of the works display an attention to materials and form that distinguish his own practice.
As well as artists of his own generation - Dirk Bell, Thomas Demand, Manfred Pernice, Andreas Slominski and Peter Strau脽 鈥� Scheibitz has also selected those of an older generation born in East Germany - Carl Friedrich Claus, Hermann Gl枚ckner, Manfred Kuttner, A.R. Penck and Eugen Sch枚nebeck. Sketches and drawings from those working beyond the fine arts such as the Yugoslavian architect Bogdan Bogdanovich (b.1922) and the German writer Arno Schmidt (1914-79) provide an insight into the artists eclectic interests. Tacita Dean (b. UK,1965), Mathew Hale (b. UK, 1962), 脰yvind Fahlstr枚m (b.Brazil 1928,d.Sweden 1976), the structuralist film-maker Paul Sharits (USA, 1943-93) and two or three more artists yet to be finally confirmed will also be included.
The Drawing Room has invited Scheibitz to curate its third artist-curated exhibition. A Moving Plan B for Chapter 1 reveals the motivation and inspiration behind Scheibitz鈥檚 paintings, sculptures and works on paper and introduces various approaches to drawing as used by artists, architects, film-makers and writers over the past 50 years. The exhibition will include sketches, drawings, notes and also working journals not normally made available for public viewing.
Drawing occupies a very important position within the working processes of Scheibitz, providing the connecting link between the idea and its execution. He is interested in how creators of different disciplines use drawing and sketches to transport personal ideas and thought processes into the public domain. In his own work Scheibitz draws inspiration from a wide range of sources including films, literature, music, art history and visual details that he encounters in daily life. These are harnessed through the camera, sketch-book and cuttings from printed material. A process of sketching and drawing transforms this visual material into the lexicon of forms that inhabit his paintings and sculptures.
Scheibitz has selected drawings that possess autonomy and convey meaning beyond the often very constrained and specific conditions within which they were made. All of the works display an attention to materials and form that distinguish his own practice.
As well as artists of his own generation - Dirk Bell, Thomas Demand, Manfred Pernice, Andreas Slominski and Peter Strau脽 鈥� Scheibitz has also selected those of an older generation born in East Germany - Carl Friedrich Claus, Hermann Gl枚ckner, Manfred Kuttner, A.R. Penck and Eugen Sch枚nebeck. Sketches and drawings from those working beyond the fine arts such as the Yugoslavian architect Bogdan Bogdanovich (b.1922) and the German writer Arno Schmidt (1914-79) provide an insight into the artists eclectic interests. Tacita Dean (b. UK,1965), Mathew Hale (b. UK, 1962), 脰yvind Fahlstr枚m (b.Brazil 1928,d.Sweden 1976), the structuralist film-maker Paul Sharits (USA, 1943-93) and two or three more artists yet to be finally confirmed will also be included.
Contact details
Thomas Scheibitz in conversation Friday 17 September, 19.00 at The Drawing Room Thomas Scheibitz in conversation with writer Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith. Event is free but booking is essential. If you wish to attend please contact The Drawing Room. Spr眉th Magers, London, will present a solo exhibition by Thomas Scheibitz to coincide with The Drawing Room show. Titled A moving plan B - chapter TWO, the exhibition will include a frieze of works on paper plus photographs and small drawings that link conceptually to his curated exhibition. A catalogue, designed by Thomas Scheibitz, will be published by The Drawing Room. It will include an introduction and sketches by Scheibitz and essays by the Berlin-based philosopher Marcus Steinweg and the Berlin-based curator and writer Anna-Catherina Gebbers. Scheibitz was born in Radeberg near Dresden in former East Germany in 1968 and studied painting at the Dresden Art Academy from 1991. He lives and works in Berlin. He had his first internationally recognised solo show Low Sweetie in 1999 at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London. He has exhibited internationally since the late 1990鈥檚. Recent solo exhibitions: Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, A (forthcoming, 2010); Camden Arts Centre, London, UK and Mus茅e d' Art Moderne Luxembourg, L, (2008); IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE (2008) and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, D (2007). He has participated in many international groups exhibitions including at MoMA, New York, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA; Tate Modern, London, UK.
September 17, 2010
7:00 PM
1-27 Rodney Place, Elephant and Castle London, UK SE17 1PP
