All About Drawing

All About Drawing. 100 Dutch Artists
Major overview of Dutch drawing after 1960
23 April - 28 August 2011 

All About Drawing. 100 Dutch Artists provides insight into the development of drawing in the Netherlands from the 1960s up to the present day. Diana Wind, director of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and artist/curator Arno Kramer selected a hundred artists for whom drawing is the most important discipline in their oeuvre. The choice was also determined by the degree of originality and autonomous quality displayed, continuity in the oeuvre, the intensity of the work on paper, and diversity in the genres. Accordingly, a whole panorama of draughtsmen who realize work with an own signature can now be presented. 

Artists have worked with many styles and genres in the period covered by All About Drawing. Draughtsmen such as Marijn Akkermans, Rik Smits and Jeroen Pomp, among others, have produced figurative drawings in which all forms of nature, humans, animals and architecture form the themes. The category of ‘abstraction, serial and fundamental’ contains the work of Jan Schoonhoven and Cor de Nobel, for example, while ‘text and form’ is represented by artists such as Marc Nagtzaam, Paul van der Eerden and Henri Jacobs. All forms of expression are represented in terms of style as well, ranging from the very disciplined abstract style of Gerda Teljeur and Arjan Janssen to the wilder drawings by David Bade and Charlotte Schleiffert. More sensitive and poetic drawings are also present in abundance; they have often been produced in large format, by artists such as Hanneke Francken, Elly Strik, Jacobien de Rooij, Hans de Wit, Erik Odijk and Renie Spoelstra. All About Drawing is an indispensable overview for everyone interested in post-war drawing. 

Drawings Manifestation and Symposium
Many galleries, museums and art institutions participate in a parallel activity called Tekeningen Manifestatie(Drawings Manifestation), which is an initiative of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and is intended to elicit attention for drawing at as many locations as possible during the exhibition period. The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam will organize a symposium with speakers from home and abroad during this period. 

Book
To accompany the exhibition, d’Jonge Hond Publishers will issue a voluminous book of 344 pages with more than 200 illustrations, and text contributions by Hans den Hartog Jager, Renée Steenbergen, Pietje Tegenbosch, Maria Barnas, Yasmijn Jarram, Arno Kramer and Diana Wind. The book places modern autonomous drawing in a historical and international context. The perception of the drawing by private collectors and museums and galleries is also dealt with.