The Pencil Is a Key is an exhibition of historical and contemporary drawings by incarcerated people from all over the globe. Works by artists who were or currently are prisoners will be juxtaposed with drawings by prisoners who became artists while incarcerated. Examples include drawings by political prisoners like Gustave Courbet, who was held in Saint Pélagie Prison for his role in the Paris Commune uprising of 1871; artists incarcerated during World War II as noncombatents like Hans Bellmer, who was interned in France, and a young Ruth Asawa, who was interned by the US government because she was a Japanese American; as well as artists in Soviet Gulags, Apartheid-era South Africa, in Central and South American countries under military dictatorships, and in the post-Arab Spring Middle East.
Artists: Abdualmalik Abud, Mansoor Adayfi, Djamel Ameziane, Ruth Asawa, Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), Gil Batle,, Hans Bellmer, Marcus Behmer, Alexander Bogen, Chester Brost,...Gustave Courbet, Paul Cochard, Timothy Curtis, Ozef Czapski, Devon Daniels, Honoré Daumier, Richard Dadd, Angel Delgado, Valentino Dixon, Joseph Dole, Etahdleuh Doanmoe, Zehra Doğan, Henry Fukuhara, Francisco "Paco" Estrada, Darrell W. Fair, Hubert Robert, Bear's Heart, Howling Wolf, Maximilien Luce, Migron, Émile Simonet (Fanfan), Wols, Felix Nussbaum, Halina Olomucki, Toshiki (Dick) Hamaoka, Miné Okubo, Martin Ramirez, Sérgio Sister, Purvis Young, Frank Jones, Inez Nathaniel Walker, Ibrahim El Salahi, Fatima Meer, Miguel Lawner Steiman, Adam Policzer, Lily Ester Rivas Labbé, Rodrigo Silva Vial, Welmon Sharlhorne, Ahmed Rabbani, Saeed, Khalid Qasim , Ahmed Rabbani, Mahmoud Mohamed Abd El Aziz, Azza Abo Rebieh, R Dot Nandez, Damon Locks, C. McLaurin, Flynard "Fly 1" Miller, Andrés Reyes, Sarah Ross, B.R. Shaw, Bring, Johnny Taylor, Zhang Yue, Kontonhuang, Alexey Wangenheim, Herman Wallace and Adolf Wolfli.
Organized by the curatorial team at The Drawing Center: Claire Gilman, Rosario Güiraldes, Laura Hoptman, Isabella Kapur, and Duncan Tomlin.
Image credit: Angel Delgado, Papeles del Tanque (Papers of the Tank) 1990. Pen and color pencil on paper. (Detail)
Entrada actualizada el el 26 ago de 2019
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