A presentation of Student Work
Fri 11th: 3 pm - 5 pm
On view: Mon 11th, Tue 12th: 10 am - 5 pm
From The 5-day Documentary Drawing Workshop
Artist-in-Residence Mr. Matthias Beckmann in collaboration with and at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Goethe-Institut Bangalore and 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery as part of our Bangalore Residency 2022.
Matthias set out with this intention for his students. "We become drawing reporters and draw outside in the city. With our drawings, we tell stories about places or events. Drawing means above all: looking closely. We also pay attention to the seemingly insignificant."
This is exactly what he delivered by methodically and gently guiding his 26 art students from CKP through pointed exercises using the humble mediums of pencil, pen and paper. With insights into drawing contours and silhouettes of complete forms, looking at grounds and figures, copying signatures upside-down, not taking eyes of the mark of observation, not letting the pen lift off from the gravity of the paper, multiple exercises of drawing outdoors, recounting the camera to zoom-in-out out or loom over, recalling a comic strip to tell a sequence ... By offering carefully selected examples of drawings by the Masters and experimental artists from the scientific drawings of Da Vinci, lithographs of Giacometti, the massive large scale drawings made from memory of aerial flights by Stephen Wiltshire, the traced etchings from within transparent cubicles of Pia Linz, courtroom drawings of Ronald Searle ... allowing them to look at their own college with fresh lens, to stepping out to observe the world outside ... Matthias has truly excited, inspired his students with his rigour and commitment. Through this workshop he has not just given them a chance to hone their skills as artists but he has opened a new way of seeing they could take with them for life.
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