Just saw the drawing exhibit at MOMA, On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century. It’s a survey of mostly abstract drawing – even the representational work is by artists such as Klee and Picasso, realism doesn’t figure in this show. The focus is on work that somehow expands or redefines the traditional boundaries of drawing. There’s plenty to like in this show including a drawing on canvas by Mondrian which is an unfinished painting. Actually it’s an unstarted painting. Interesting to see that he actually worked out his compositions in pencil directly on canvas. There was a reconstruction of El Lissitzky’s Proun Room and Calder’s wire sculptures which are always a joy. The greatest revelation was work by the Venezuelan artist Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) who also worked with wire to form two dimensional grids that playfully warped geometry and included found materials such as sprockets and electronic components.
Show closes on Feb 7th.