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Julian Schnabel: Navigation Drawings
8 January 2008 through 16 February 2008
Julian Schnabel
Sperone Westwater - New York
Sperone Westwater
415 West 13 Street, New York, NY 10014
212/999-7337 (fax) 999-7338
Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent drawings by Julian Schnabel. Titled “Navigation Drawings,” these works are painted in oil on found vintage nautical maps which are subsequently mounted onto stretched linen. Despite their intimate scale, these drawings suggest an expanding pictorial space. Rotating the map on its side or upside down, the artist releases its informational content to emphasize gesture and fluidity. Each stroke describes the speed and direction of its marking, and in this way, the drawings are as precise and as abstract as the maps onto which they are painted. The overall visual sensation is one of openness and light; one also detects a cinematic impulse to frame and focus the image.
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