Pliny used to explain the story of Apelles of Colofon, Alejandro Magno’s official painter. He had the systematic habit of practicing his art every single day by at least drawing one line. One of the lines Apelles drew was so thin that nobody else was able to reproduce it.
This exposition trails contemporary Spanish drawing with 23 artists from all over the country, from different trajectories and with different ways of facing drawing.
It covers from the easiest and most rudimentary techniques to new technologies applied to drawing. Among them:
Pencil on Paper by Sofía Jack, Sito Mújica, Óscar Seco, José Luis Serzo Domingo Sánchez Blanco
Digital Printing by Marina Núñez, Enrique Radigales, Daniel Silvo
Geometric Abstraction by Ruth Quirce
Simple Abstraction by Abraham Lacalle
Pure Line by Imanol Marrodán
Video-drawing Hybridism by Juan Zamora
A Wink to Antiquity by Manuel Barbero
Instant Drawings by Juan Angel González de la Calle
Oneiric Drawing by Luis Quintero
Comic by Luis Pérez Calvo
Landscape bu Santiago Talavera o Jesús Zurita
Geographic Conceptual Drawing by Lola Marazuela and Paco Mesa, who create a real drawing, a global drawing from an imaginary line.
Figurative Drawing by PSJM with harsh criticism of society.