Traces - Contemporary Drawing in Israel
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The project Traces - Contemporary Drawing in Israel is a new and ambitious initiative whose aim is to found a long term and wide-ranging project. We intend to create a framework appropriate for the encouragement and support of the field of drawing, which after all, since the beginning of time, is at the base of the artistic act. We aim for a serious and permanent framework whose form will be shaped through time, through learning and experience, through an examination of needs. Every two or three years this project will hold a central exhibition with a few supplementary ones.
We want this large and important project to capture a place of respect among the other important activities taking place in museums and galleries, and to become an event that artists relate to and wait for with expectation, while also keeping an efficient structure - modest and economical - that will assure its continuation in the future. Various questions need to be asked: is there need for such a project, isn't enough done in the other frameworks mentioned above? We know and appreciate what has been done in the field of drawing, especially by The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as galleries such as Givon, Dvir, Mary Fauzi, Gordon, and others. We are glad to be launching this project into a space that is not empty, but quite the opposite. However, we are witness to two interesting phenomena: it seems that teaching drawing as a principal and worthwhile subject at the main art schools is losing its importance, but alternately, the number of exhibitions dealing with drawing over the last few years is larger than ever, and the number of artists turning to drawing is noticeable. Our principal goal is, therefore, to encourage the art schools to strengthen and improve their teaching of drawing, and to widen the framework within which artists can exhibit what is fast becoming a deluge of drawing works. We have chosen to base this project in Jerusalem. Part of it is exhibited in all the spaces of the Artists' House, and smaller parts are exhibited at the Ticho House and the Jerusalem Print Workshop. About eighty artists, of different generations, are participating in the various exhibitions. The project's offices are at the Artists' House, which stands behind this initiative. Project director: Ruth Sadka Curator: Ilan Wizgan Artistic committee: Alexander Okun, Ruth Sadka, Ilan Wizgan Exhibitions courtesy of The Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport - the Department of Plastic Arts Jerusalem Municipality - the Department of Culture The Jerusalem Foundation.co |
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