克莱蒙特, CA—The Benton Museum of Art at 皇冠体育大学 is pleased to announce two dynamic exhibitions of drawings this spring in 克莱蒙特. 纸上的无限: Drawings from the 集合 of the Benton Museum of Art 和杰克·希尔 该片将于2024年2月14日上映 五百年意大利绘画 from the Princeton University Art Museum 2月16日开幕. Both exhibitions are on view until June 23, 2024. Together these exhibitions—comprising more than 150 drawings by some of the most recognized 艺术家s of the past five centuries—present the vast array of possibilities inherent in the medium and revel in this intimate and physical process of creativity. The Benton will mark the opening of both exhibitions with the program “Adventures in Collecting Drawings” on Saturday, February 17 at 4 pm featuring Laura 贾尔斯,希瑟和保罗·G. Haaga小., 1970届毕业生, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum, 和杰克·希尔, 收集器 and executive director of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. A reception and exhibition viewing will follow.
“We are delighted to celebrate the power of drawings on this occasion. 在博物馆的背景下, drawings are at once acknowledged as the basis for all 艺术家ic expression—architecture, 雕塑, 绘画, printmaking—yet they rarely get featured as the protagonists of art historical narratives,维多利亚·桑乔·洛比斯说, 莎拉·伦佩尔和赫伯特·S. Rempel ’23 Director of the museum. “Even more rewarding is that these two exhibitions are the happy results of collaborations with our valued partners Jack Shear, the Princeton University Art Museum, 以及我们的AllPaper研讨会成员, the latter supported by the Getty Foundation and the Tavolozza Foundation. We have all worked together to present these exhibitions, which I believe are especially important in a liberal arts context, where the art of drawing may serve as a metaphor for the process of becoming, the potential for scarce or modest materials to transform into compelling, 完全实现的表达式.”
纸上的无限 is rooted in the museum’s AllPaper Seminar, a professional development program designed to introduce graduate students and young curators and 艺术家s from all backgrounds to the fields of works on paper. The 2023 session of the seminar—the second year of the program—delved into the history, 方法, 图纸材料. 作为研讨会的一部分, the AllPaper Fellows were generously allowed access to the exceptional drawing collection of Jack Shear, 艺术家, 收集器, and executive director of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. This deep engagement with Shear and his collection, 还有本顿家的人, led seminar participants to create “conversations” among works that will be installed in Shear’s signature style— closely hung groups without interpretive labels. The result is a playful and provocative series of juxtapositions, 交流, and elaborations that explore the medium and its wealth of possibilities.
Opening two days later on February 16, 五百年意大利绘画 from the Princeton University Art Museum highlights the quality, scope, and scholarly importance of the university’s collection. Featuring 89 works from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth century by 艺术家s that include Parmigianino, Guercino, 贝尔尼尼, Tiepolo, 和莫迪里阿尼, the exhibition is organized by such topics as technique, 艺术教育, 实验, and the pivotal role played by drawing in the creative process. As the backbone of training and imagination since the Renaissance, drawing allowed 艺术家s to conceptualize and realize a design on paper, constituting the first mark-making step toward a project’s final realization as a 绘画, 雕塑, 或建筑. 结果是, the exhibition comprises a broad range of subject matter while also reflecting the varied nature of the function of drawings—figural studies, 的螺栓, 漫画, 书中插图, 甚至是建筑图纸. 所有这些逮捕的作品, drawn from life and the imagination, convey the universal appeal of drawing as one of the most intimate and revelatory manifestations of 艺术家ic practice.
五百年意大利绘画 is organized by the Princeton University Art Museum.
The exhibition is curated by Laura M. 贾尔斯,希瑟和保罗·G. Haaga小., 1970届毕业生, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum. The exhibition was organized at the Benton by Victoria Sancho Lobis, 莎拉·伦佩尔和赫伯特·S. Rempel ’23 Director, and Li Machado, curatorial assistant. 支持 for the exhibition has been provided by the Eva Cole and Clyde Matson Memorial Fund and The Rembrandt Club of 皇冠体育大学 and 克莱蒙特.
纸上的无限 由所罗门·萨利姆·摩尔策划, assistant curator of collections at the Benton, with curatorial interns Gala Lopez-Grado Salinas (SC ’24) and Kathy Shepherd (PO ’23). The exhibition is supported by the Eva Cole and Clyde Matson Memorial Fund at 皇冠体育大学 and is accompanied by a pocket-sized print-on-demand catalogue including illustrations of more than 15 of the works on view and the interpretive material produced by the AllPaper Seminar Fellows.