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              ”Des(enho)” Marilá Dardot, Marcius Galan, Nicolás Paris, Gabriel Sierra, Carla Zaccagnini
              Mariangela Méndez
              Drawing is most itself when other than itself. The exhibition “Des(enho)” ventures beyond drawing by locating the very act (its gesture) in the context of a larger domain: mark-making, mapping, transposing, translating. This list of verbs is not accidental; the exhibition renders acts, actions, activities, rather than objects. Rodrigo Moura, in his brief curatorial statement paraphrasing Rosalind Krauss, proposes the occurrence of “drawing in the expanded field,” a kind of diffusion or invasion of drawing practices into other media. Consequently, the exhibition focuses on works where drawing insists on its own presence—not necessarily as a medium but as a concept, gesture, metaphor. Territorial expansions are precarious and hazardous undertakings. Take photography, for instance, some decades ago: there was an extraordinary expansion and dispersion of the field that gradually yielded to a kind of disruptive dissolution. Or to put it more candidly: there are limitless answers to the question, “what is drawing?”. But will the plethora of possibilities blunt the question, eventually leading towards a conceptual quagmire? Through a conceptually generous selection of works from five artists, the exhibition offers a series of dialogues with the concept of drawing. Marcius Galan’s Drawing a Line (2011) gives us attentive records—or translations—of the most elementary …
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