Drawing Now Paris 2020 … what we would have shown …
Installation view at Drawing Now Paris 2019
SOPHIE BOUVIER AUSLÄNDER b. 1970, Switzerland
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
“Rarely you end up working with an artist that you meet at the booth of an art fair. Sophie was almost blushing when she complimented me on the integrity and beauty of our booths over the past years. Of the many unsolicited catalogues sent to the gallery I had kept hers to review as I was somehow intrigued. Then a close gallery client, after previewing another fair, brought me to the booth of Sophie’s Swiss gallery, and it finally all made sense. Sophie’s fascination with mapping and maps reaches a depth unsurpassed in that medium. The texture and sensuality of her surfaces mirror her philosophical approach and I suppose her character as well; multifaceted and gentle, yet determined.” (Patrick Heide)
Avalanche (SBA2017NS1287) Gouache on waxed map 32 x 28 cm 2017 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame
Avalanche (SBA2017NS1241) Gouache on waxed map 32 x 28 cm 2017 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame
Avalanche (SBA2017NS1203) Gouache on waxed map 32 x 28 cm 2017 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame
Avalanche (SBA2017NS1205) Gouache on waxed map 32 x 28 cm 2017 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame
Avalanche (SBA20170610) Gouache on waxed map, 32 x 24.5 cm, 2017 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT
Avalanche (SBA20170617) Gouache on waxed map, 32 x 24.5 cm, 2017 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT
Avalanche (SBA20180310) Gouache on waxed map, 34 x 30 cm, 2018 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT
Avalanche (SBA20180311) Gouache on waxed map, 34 x 30 cm, 2018 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT
Sophie Bouvier Ausländer’s point of departure for her artistic practice is nothing less than our planet, which can be considered as the sculpture par excellence. Bouvier Ausländer is interested in the tangibility of things. Her creations are arcane, often rudimentary and transitory. The Swiss artist eliminates, disrupts or perforates the structure of the objects she works with. One needs to closely inspect them to understand what is hidden beneath the surface, under painted road maps, shredded world map collages or subscribed plasticine sculptures. Her small and large-scale waxed maps from the Avalanche series for instance are covered with paint and then scratched and scribbled into with abstract shapes or grids, and then sometimes recovered with paint drippings. Exposing hints of the underlying countries, oceans, cities and borders, one tries to decipher and rediscover familiar environments, names and signs. This way Bouvier Ausländer keeps our curiosity and familiarity alive while she manages to produce almost entirely new objects that recharge the existing ones.
Avalanche (SBA20190104) Gouache on waxed map 55 x 39 cm 2019 € 9,000.00 incl. VAT
DAVID CONNEARN b. 1952, United Kingdom
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
Refuge 1 (numbers game) Black and coloured acrylic inks on 300 gsm Fabriano Artistico paper 97 x 97 cm 2017 â‚Ź 9,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Five Drawings – Drawing 1 (2.0, 1.0, 0.5, 0.25, 0.13mm line) Black ink on 300gsm Heritage Rag paper 42 x 42 cm each 2019 € 20,000.00 incl. VAT & frame (set of 5)
“The encounter with David Connearn’s lines came through a somewhat unusual path. A client of the Contemporary Art Society wished to sell a series of five drawings by David. I was contacted as the gallery had a reputation for obsessive positions in the program - and fell in love on first sight, never having heard of David before. As simple as the initial concept of David’s drawings may be, the metaphors of a line never being like another line yet following the one before, links to life, days, years, patterns, earth stratifications, weaving, moving, breathing. Simply brilliant in execution, deeply philosophical in scale.” (Patrick Heide)
Five Drawings – Drawing 2
Five Drawings – Drawing 3
Five Drawings – Drawing 4
Five Drawings – Drawing 5
David Connearn draws lines. For hours, days and weeks starting with a single line that he draws freehand and as straight as possible across the top of the page. He then retraces a second line just underneath that first one following its wandering path with all its imperfections. In doing so, each line errs and veers off setting a new track for the next and continues to do so until the work is finished. Connearn’s purely abstract drawings address issues of temporality, chance and the physical act of the drawing process itself. The hand of the artist is constantly perceptible: in the succession of lines and the movements they make as well as in the border width, which results from the precise setting of each single line. Despite a genuinely conceptual approach these works don’t have anything automated but are the record of an activity in time. A repeated sequence of actions and gestures that is surrounded by a transcendental aura and a moment of contingency.
Untitled (Five Drawings) Black ink on 300gsm Heritage Rag paper 21 x 21 cm each 2019 â‚Ź 8,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
KÁROLY KESERÜ (Focus artist) b. 1962, Hungary
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
Untitled (1906153) Ink on paper 76 x 56 cm 2019 € 4,500.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (1906203) Ink on paper 77 x 56 cm 2019 € 4,500.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (1906113) Ink on paper 76 x 56 cm 2019 € 4,500.00 incl. VAT & frame
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
Untitled (1901093) XXth Century Series: Paul Klee: ‘Take a line and a few more for a walk..’ Ink on paper 76 x 57 cm 2019 € 4,500.00 incl. VAT & frame
“Károly Keserü was another artist that I spotted in a Summer Exhibition many years ago amongst the clusters of art works densely scattered in the usual Petersburg hanging. The smallish painting emanated an almost spiritual aura like no other, the technique was strikingly unusual. I wrote to Károly to ask for images of other works, which he refused in several handwritten and painted cards insisting that they have to be seen in the flesh. And Károly was right, the works piled into a small storage room immediately did their magic. I still find it hard to grasp that it is possible to create such a dense and versatile artistic microcosm, that essentially mirrors our macrocosm, by simply varying and alternating lines and dots.” (Patrick Heide)
Untitled (1906183) Ink on paper 76 x 56 cm 2019 € 4,500.00 incl. VAT & frame
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
Untitled (1908013) XXth Century Series: Piet Mondrian: Broadway under bombing Ink on paper 76 x 56 cm 2019 â‚Ź 4,500.00 incl. VAT & frame
The versatility of Keserü’s drawings ranges from static and dense compositions to open and dynamic wave like structures, compositions of dots, lines and scribbles that merge to territorial arrangements or primordially inspired designs. The recently predominant XXth Century Series demonstrate Keserü’s mastering of appropriation and implementation. The series fuses the legacy of early modernists and 20th Century avant-gardists with the Hungarian’s distinctive vocabulary and allows him to re-investigate their claim. While Keserü references 20th Century aesthetics, his compositions appear to be of our time, linked to digital imagery of pixelated close-ups or visualized data textures, although being crafted entirely by hand. In his search for a balance between the physical and metaphysical, between system and chance, Károly Keserü draws inspiration not only from Modern masters, but also folk art, textiles and in particular music. Always employing a reduced language, his drawings are often playful, even light, yet at times incredibly complex.
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
Untitled (1611191) XXth Century Series: Bauhaus Johannes Itten Ink & graphite on paper 30 x 21 cm 2016 â‚Ź 1,350.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (1811291) Ink on paper 30 x 21 cm 2018 € 1,350.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (1609261) Ink & graphite on paper 30 x 21 cm 2016 € 1,350.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (1902181) Ink on paper 30 x 21 cm 2019 € 1,350.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (1903031) Ink on paper 30 x 21 cm 2019 € 1,350.00 incl. VAT & frame
CAROLINE KRYZECKI b. 1979, Germany
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
KSZ 200/152-30 Ballpoint pen on paper 200 x 152 cm 2019 € 16,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
KSZ 50/35-97 Ballpoint pen on paper 50 x 35 cm 2018 € 2,8000.00 incl. VAT & frame
KSZ 50/35-11 Ballpoint pen on paper 50 x 35 cm 2013 â‚Ź 2,800.00 incl. frame
THOM AS M ĂœLLER b. 1959, Germany
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
“Being German and with many artistic links to Germany, it is ironic that Thomas, already highly respected in his home country, was introduced to me by Andrew Hewish, a curator from London, at Drawing Now Paris, where the Centre Pompidou bought Thomas’ first set of drawings that year. Early gallery positions had evolved around abstract geometric works, so Thomas experimental and gestural drawings were a leap of faith. A leap that was fertile in many ways and important in opening up the gallery’s program. Thomas’ dedication to drawing has few comparisons. His oeuvre is a complete universe of its own, incredibly free yet clearly distinguishable, always in balance though continually expanding.” (Patrick Heide)
Untitled (PH 513) Coloured pencil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2019 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (PH 514) Coloured pencil, acrylic & oil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2019 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (PH 519) Coloured pencil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2019 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (PH 520) Indian ink, acrylic & oil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2019 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (PH 521) Pencil & oil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2019 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (PH 522) Ballpoint pen on paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2019 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (PH 523) Oil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2019 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (PH 481) Pencil & oil colour on paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2019 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (PH 524) Pencil, chalk & acrylic on paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2019 â‚Ź 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (PH 499) Pencil, silver coloured pencil, chalk & Indian ink on paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2018 â‚Ź 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
Untitled (PH 492) Pencil, Indian ink & acrylic on paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2016 â‚Ź 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (PH 498) Pencil, silver coloured pencil, chalk, Indian ink & acrylic on paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2018 â‚Ź 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (PH 510) Silver coloured pencil, Indian ink & acrylic on Arches paper 160 x 115 cm 2019 â‚Ź 16,800.00 incl. VAT & frame
Untitled (PH 508) Pencil, chalk, oil stick & Indian ink on Arches paper 160 x 115 cm 2018 â‚Ź 16,800.00 incl. VAT & frame
For Thomas Müller drawing is an endless field of experimentation. His delicate, abstract structures are autonomous compositions and at the same time jigsaw pieces of a larger entity. In many cases they trespass the picture plane and connect with neighbouring formations. Dynamic lines in pencil or ballpoint pen that resemble macroscopic details of a gigantic wave, or extremely reduced compositions with just a few markings, express a yearning for complementary structures. Whether minimalistic in composition, free in their mark making or even chaotic, whether purely intuitive or built up in a more structured and purposeful manner, Müller’s drawings all relate at some point. The artist often presents rows of A4 drawings hung in open grid formations to additionally stimulate these liaisons and to conclude and counterbalance a drawing process that he had started elsewhere. Despite the diversity and a constant pushing of boundaries an overall equilibrium prevails. Müller’s oeuvre is a reflection of our world, its different forms, structures and energetic fields that are being invented and repeated or stay fixed at the base of our universe. Müller is one of the few artists who manages to capture the essence of drawing and its metaphysical meaning in the most condensed and explorative way.
Untitled (PH 509) Indian ink & oil on Arches paper 160 x 115 cm 2019 â‚Ź 16,800.00 incl. VAT & frame
ALICE QUARESMA b. 1985, Brazil
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
Mental Object 11 Acrylic paint & colour pencil over photographic print 76 x 102 cm 2018 â‚Ź 4,400.00 incl. VAT & frame
Campfire Acrylic paint & sticker over photo print 33 x 50 cm 2019 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Typical Passage Acrylic paint & sticker over photo print 30 x 46 cm 2019 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT & frame
Greatest Hopes Acrylic paint & sticker over photo print 60 x 40 cm 2019 â‚Ź 2,400.00 incl. VAT & frame
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
Ninho 76 Colour pencil & sticker over photographic print 20 x 25 cm 2016 â‚Ź 800.00 incl. VAT & frame
Ninho 63 Colour pencil & sticker over photographic print 20 x 25 cm 2016 â‚Ź 800.00 incl. VAT & frame
Ninho 82 Sticker over photographic print 25 x 20 cm 2016 â‚Ź 800.00 incl. VAT & frame
Ninho 84 Colour pencil & sticker over photographic print 25 x 20 cm 2016 â‚Ź 800.00 incl. VAT & frame
Originally trained as a painter, Quaresma gradually developed a deeper interest in photography and started to work with an extensive personal photo archive, mainly imagery of landscapes, architectural details and beach scenes. She then experimented with editing and expanding her photographs by adding painted geometric forms, drawing and collage. Quaresma’s interventions of bright coloured dots, lines, rectangles and squares breathe life into the mainly black and white photographs. The geometric figures are reminiscent of the Brazilian Neo-Concrete Movement, which originated in late 1960s to call for a greater sensuality, colour and poetic feeling in concrete art. Fragmented Truth, the title of Quaresma’s new series, indicates the aim to explore ways in which imagination and reality overlap. The title takes on the myth that photography is showing the reality, the truth. Quaresma manipulates or alters her prints to challenge the limits of the medium. Quaresma’s works are dealing with memory, a sense of loss and belonging to create of utopian sceneries. Works such as Campfire (2018) bear this nostalgia and transience while Quaresma’s minimal intrusions give the work a sense of playfulness.
Ninho 78 Sticker over photographic print 25 x 20 cm 2016 â‚Ź 800.00 incl. VAT & frame