Exhibit explores drawing in contemporary art - Queens, N.Y - Drawing Now: Eight Propositions at the Museum of Modern Art in Queens - Brief Article

In "Drawing Now: Eight Propositions," The Museum of late Art in Queens explores the importance of drawing in contemporary art. The exhibit features about 250 newly commissioned wall drawings, site-specific installations and series rarely seen in their entirety.

The exhibit represents the work of 26 young artists from Europe Asia and the Americas, including Chris Ofili, John Currin, Richard Wright, Takashi Murakami, Kara Walker and Neo Rauch. The work is divided into eight sections, or "propositions"--each presenting a unique artistic strategy in contemporary drawing. They are: Science and Art, Nature and Artifice, Ornament, Architectural Drafting, Visionary Architecture, Cosmegenies, Vernacular Illustration, Comics and Animation, Fashion and Likeness.

According to visitant Curator and Organizer of the incident Laura Hoptman, the exhibit showcases the growing of contemporary drawing in the last 10 years that has not been seen since the 1960 and challenges the assumption that drawing is an analog to an activity.

"The artists in this exhibition are creating a kind of drawing that deliver overs as much to the language of life around us as it does to fine art," said Hoptman. "The drawings communicate information, narrate a story, create a scenario or enjoin solemnly a world or a combination of parts to form a whole of belief."

MoMA had a lengthy history of organizing exhibitions that at hand an overview of contemporary art. Bernice Rose former curator of the Department of Drawings tried to rethink the function and importance of drawing in her "Drawing Now" exhibition of 1976 While Hoptman's "Drawing Now" is more focused and introduces relatively young and emerging artists, the exhibition may shed of recent origin analysis on the tradition of drawing.

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