Titled Size Matters | Monumental Drawing Now, Museum MORE will show drawings that uncompromisingly occupy space and demand the viewer's attention from 20 October 2024 to 2 February 2025. From drawings on metre-long paper to a video animation and 3-dimensional installations. No fleeting sketches or intimate representations but impressive museum works by 28 established and up-and-coming top artists from home and abroad.
Tour de Force
The exhibition features work from pioneers of monumental drawing to young talent. And especially for Size Matters, Lise Sore is creating a new work. For these artists, large format is not an occasional outing, but an essential part of their oeuvre, in which they persevere despite the mental and physical tour de force it demands of them time and again. The museum thus wants to draw attention to the emancipation of drawing in recent decades and present it as a formidable counterpart to painting.
How do format and appearance affect the medium of drawing? How does it differ from painting today? Is it still possible to define drawing art and what is its status? Size Matters shows the versatility and ambition of contemporary drawing by focusing on very large formats, from a minimum of 2 metres to as much as 10 metres, and room-filling installations. Diverse materials, techniques and mediums are covered, from charcoal, chalk, ink and (coloured) pencil on paper, to biros, cheesecloth, iron filings on magnetic paper and virtual reality.
Pushing boundaries
The exhibition is organised around three recurring themes: nature vs architecture and indoor vs outdoor; current events vs history; (hyper)realism vs virtual reality and science fiction. MORE focuses on realistic art from 1900 to the present and actively explores the boundaries of the concept of realism. Its focus so far has been predominantly on painting, while drawing is a medium par excellence for experimentation and pushing boundaries. The exhibition, curated by senior curator Marieke Jooren and guest curator Raquel Maulwurf, will be accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue with two essays by Marieke Jooren and art critic Edo Dijksterhuis. Moreover, the 28 artists explain the importance of format and material in this art book.
Artists
Danja Akulin, Agatha van Amée, Charles Avery, Hans Op de Beeck, Robbie Cornelissen, Aymeraude du Couëdic, Nicolas Daubanes, Pietsjanke Fokkema, Kepa Garraza, Cathelijn van Goor, Anouk Griffioen, Katrin Günther, David Haines, Raquel Maulwurf, Carlijn Mens, Radenko Milak, Anne Muntges, Jans Muskee, Erik Odijk, James Pustorino, Jacobien de Rooij, Amélie Scotta, Dom Simon, Lise Sore, Renie Spoelstra, Rinus Van de Velde, Levi van Veluw en Hans de Wit.
