Editors: Andrea Bellini, Sarah Lombardi
Collection: Arte contemporanea. Cataloghi
Publisher: Skira
Category: Previews, Catalogues, Contemporary art
Language: English | French
Year: 2020
Isbn: 885724350
Dimensions: 21 x 30 cm
Pages: 288
Colour illustrations: 200
Binding: Cartonato
Il catalogo –edito da Skira– della mostra «Scrivere Disegnando. When Language Seeks Its Other» – Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (dal 29 gennaio – 23 agosto 2020).
A book about writing and its shadow side. It examines a number of practices, from the early 20th century to the present day, in which writing leaves behind its communicative function and moves toward the sphere of the illegible and unspeakable.
Writing by Drawing sets out to explore the tension inherent in script, the way it hovers between the genuinely semantic realm and the uncharted territory of mere arabesques, automatisms, repeated marks, and scribbles.
All of the works presented inhabit a special terrain vague in which the act of writing is more about “trying to say” than “saying” itself, more about potentialities of meaning than about signification. Such writing has transcended communication, becoming a trace of existence and affirmation of self but also an element of fancy, a metaphor for the mysterious weft of the world. Our investigation centers on this ancient human impulse to move past the communicative side of writing toward the unfettered, absolute reclamation of the mark, with its wealth of imaginative possibilities.Andrea Bellini is an Italian and Swiss curator and contemporary art critic based in Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2012 he is director of the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and artistic director of the Biennial of moving images.
Sarah Lombardi, art historian, has been appointed Director of the Collection de l’Art.
Il Catalogo
La mostra
Scrivere Disegnando (“Writing by Drawing”) is an exhibition about writing and its double. Its aim is to look back over a number of practices, from the early twentieth century to the present day, in which writing leaves the function of communication behind and moves into the sphere of the uncommunicable, the unsayable. It sets out to explore the tension inherent in script, the way that it hovers between the genuinely semantic realm and the uncharted territory of mere arabesques, automatisms, repeated marks and scribbles. All of the works on view inhabit a special terrain vague in which the act of writing is more about “trying to say” than “saying” itself, more about potentialities of meaning than about signification, to paraphrase Giorgio Agamben. It is a kind of writing that sometimes verges on delirium; it is carried beyond meaning to become an existential self-affirmation, but it is also a fanciful metaphor for the world and its mysteries.
As the very first collaborative project between the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne and the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, this exhibition brings together a diverse range of personalities: from “outsider” artists, some of whom carried out their work while institutionalized, all the way to “official” artists, some of whom played key roles in twentieth-century avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements. [read more | continua la lettura]
Immagine dalla mostra “Scrivere Disegnando” a cura di Andrea Bellini e Sarah Lombardi. Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. [Mariangela Guatteri, Asemic Erdkunden 01-02-03].
Recensioni
When Writing Has No Meaning
August 8, 2020
Scrivere Disegnando is an exhibition of more than 300 works produced by 93 artists whose subject is imaginary language.
Scrivere Disegnando: intervista ad Andrea Bellini
exibart
Il direttore del Centre d’Art Contemporain di Ginevra, Andrea Bellini, racconta la genesi della mostra “Scrivere Disegnando”, inaugurata il 29 gennaio e prorogata sino al 23 agosto, soffermandosi sull’analisi della relazione tra parola e immagine in una prospettiva antropologica, tecnologica e di genere.
Quand l’écriture dit les ombres de l’âme
Une ambitieuse exposition fait dialoguer artistes contemporains et créateurs de l’art brut pour explorer les terres inconnues du geste graphique.
“Writing by Drawing”
Artforum
Daniel Horn, aprile 2020
What do you get when you gather the individual artifacts of those who have been welcomed by the institution alongside those who were once committed to one? In the case of “Scrivere disegnando: When Language Seeks Its Other” (Writing by Drawing: When Language Seeks Its Other)—with dozens of works on view sharing mostly cursive, manual processes—the answer is a panoply of voices, both inner and alien, rendered visible.
Frieze
Harry Burke, 25 marzo 2020
An exhibition at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, explores writing’s role in embodiment and spiritual grounding
Écrire en dessinant
Le Journal des Arts
Alexia Lanta Maestrati, 24 marzo 2020
Si certains ont pu voir « Poésure et Peintrie », une exposition autour de la peinture et de l’écriture dirigée par Bernard Blistène à Marseille en 1993, à Genève les commissaires Andrea Bellini et Sarah Lombardi abordent le thème du dessin et de l’écriture.
When language seeks its other: una mostra a Ginevra esplora il rapporto tra scrittura e arte
Domus
Ginevra Bria, 20 gennaio 2020
Al CAC, una mostra si concentra sul rapporto tra scrittura e arti visive, tra parola e immagine, analizzando i campi in comune tra disegno e scrittura.
Scrivere Disegnando. Incontri ravvicinati a Ginevra
Doppiozero
Andrea Cortellessa, 3 marzo 2020
È un momento topico, nella fantascienza immune da paranoie sovraniste, quello in cui alieni e umani devono trovare un linguaggio comune. Intendersi diventa una questione di vita o di morte: proprio come tra noi della stessa specie, in effetti.
“Scrivere Disegnando. When Language Seeks Its Other”
Flash Art
Riccardo Venturi, 10 marzo 2020
Maledetto il giorno in cui la pratica del disegno e quella della scrittura hanno intrapreso strade divergenti, dopo secoli in cui erano il prodotto della stessa mente e della stessa mano. Da qui comincia un’altra storia, regressiva questa volta: quella della scrittura tipografica, della ripartizione severa tra figurale e scritturale, della rimozione della nostra passione grafica. Indifferenti a tali richiami orto-grafici sono i protagonisti dell’art brut, studiati sotto questo punto di vista da Michel Thévoz, non a caso ben rappresentati nella mostra ginevrina.
Da sloforward
An introduction
Press release
![Asemic Erdkunden 03 [handmade]](https://live.staticflickr.com/4740/40137956931_3896dbc3f5_m.jpg "Asemic Erdkunden 03 [handmade]")
Mariangela Guatteri 