Tegnerforbundet kicks off the 2011 fall season with the group exhibition Extended Drawing, curated by Janine Magelssen. The exhibition project involves nine international artists: Elana Herzog (USA), Marietta Hoferer (USA), Chris Nau (USA), Michaela Frühwirth (AT/NE), Anne Lindberg (USA), Janet Passehl (USA), Sarah Kabot (USA), Susan Collis (UK) and Janine Magelssen (NO). All the artists also participated in the exhibition Apparently Invisible, shown at The Drawing Center, New York, where it formed their Spring Selections Show in 2009.
Extended Drawing presents artistry in the expanded field of drawing. The artists explore the boundaries of the drawing related to the use of tools, materials, and to relationships to place and context. In the exhibition, therefore, the lines are just as often cut out, taped on, stapled, embroidered, modeled, or ironed as graphite. Several of the works to be shown will be specially designed for the Norwegian Designers' Association's premises. Through the artists' approach to their works, their choice of materials and design, our familiar concepts and interpretations are challenged.
"Extended Drawing takes seriously a drawing that tests the boundaries between itself as an object and the environment it takes part in. It is a drawing that has broken out of the autonomous surface, entered a three-dimensional and site-specific situation and seems to draw as much space as staying within the confines of a particular shape or format. ”
