The idea of the presentation is to show drawing as the most natural gesture and language of creative expression, which both recreates and creates reality. The exhibition will feature works of nine Japanese and nine Polish artists. Most of the artworks are prepared specially for the occasion. The title “Two Sticks” refers to the search for symmetry and differences in understanding the notion of drawing by two such different traditions, but it also focuses the viewer’s attention on the role of the 1960s avant-garde, still powerfully influencing the contemporary approach to drawing. The former Bernardine church and monastery, currently the Museum of Architecture, has hosted a number of editions of the Drawing Triennale. This year the “Two Sticks” exhibition is a venue where the West will meet the East. Arranging the formally varied works – primarily drawing installations – round the archway and garden offers the kind of narration that leads the viewer through a multitude of meanings. The “Two Sticks” works will become yet another layer of the palimpsest of this place, using its genius loci and continuing the process of perpetual deletion and addition, so typical of both nature and culture. The exhibition will be accompanied by two film projections – a documentary about the Gutai group and archives of the Wrocław Avant-Garde. One of the Triennale’s most important artists is a “Two Sticks” participant and Gutai member – Sadaharu Horio, who will create a large-sized installation in the Presbytery..
The programme also includes a review of drawing animations from the collection of the Spanish Festival Punto y Raya. Curator Maciek Bączyk has selected films which we will have an opportunity to watch for four days.
Artists
Ryoko Aoki / Masaya Chiba / Jan Chwałczyk / Wanda Gołkowska / Masanori Handa / Sadaharu Horio / Zon Ito / Zdzisław Jurkiewicz / Bartosz Kokosiński / Natalia LL / Jan Mioduszewski / Chihiro Mori / Mineki Murata / Kazuki Nakahara / Magdalena Starska / Hiraku Suzuki / Aleksandra Waliszewska / Jakub Woynarowski
Curators
Fumihhiko Sumitomo, Daniela Tagowska
Curatorial assistant: Ayako Osanai
Think Tank lab Triennale
Międzynarodowy Festiwal Rysunku Współczesnego
03.12.2015-31.01.2016
Wrocław
International Contemporary Drawing Festival aka THINK TANK lab TRIENNALE starts on the third of December 2015 in Wrocław. In upcoming edition of the Triennale the idea of international forum will be brought back after 15 years of break. Curators will present festival program to show very extensive drawing practices with numerous branches in the evolutionary line of a contemporary drawing category.
Program
Organizacja
Organizer
The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw
Co-organizers
- European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016, The National Museum in Wroclaw,
- The Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw,
- The Ossoliński National Institute,
- BARBARA.
Project co-financed by: EU Japan, Japan Foundation
Main Sponsor: EMPIK
Sponsors: Elektrotim, Formo, ATM, Spaceone, Ecophen, Glasssolutions
Honorary Patronage: MKiDN, Patronat Honorowy Prezydenta Wrocławia, Ambasada Japonii w Polsce
Partners: Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, Galeria Entropia, Mieszkanie Gepperta, Galeria Arttrakt, Galeria MD_S, BOSA galeria sztuki współczesnej, Szewska Pasja, SKiBA, ARTsight, PUNTO Y RAYA FESTIVAL, MPK Wrocław
Media Patrons: TVP Wrocław, TVP Kultura, Radio Wrocław, Radio Wrocław Kultura, Radio LUZ, Obieg, Contemporary Lynx, Format, O.pl Polski Portal Kultury, Fragile, DOKiS.PL, AMS, Architektura & Biznes