ETC…: A COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION EXPLORING THE EVOLUTION OF DRAWING
The ABRA gallery has inaugurated a show at warehouse 9 of the Centro de Arte Los Galpones (Los Chorros) that brings together 48 drawings by 48 artists from different generations of the Venezuelan art scene.
Luis Romero, curator of the collective exhibition ETC…, explains in the room text: "Despite its supposed anachronistic quality and its traditional consideration as a sketch, drawing is a medium in constant evolution. Above all, it is a work of art in itself. It offers great freedom for experimentation. Drawing can be in black and white or in color, made with pencil, charcoal, inks, and any other instrument on paper, cardboard, and a wide variety of supports. Moreover, drawing can incorporate alternative processes in its production: engraving, writing, cutting, embroidering, burning, pasting, tearing, and walking. One of its most important characteristics is its slow execution in contrast to the rapid speed of digital reproducibility."
In this sense, ETC… offers a journey through this variety of approaches to the drawing technique while also condensing works spanning from the 19th century to the 21st century of Venezuelan art. In Romero's words: "Each work reveals the strength of drawing’s imprint in local artistic production, its time, as well as the multiple contributions and explorations that artists have carried out in this field."
The exhibition features works by Mario Abreu, Carlos Anzola, María Eugenia Arria, Emilia Azcárate, Alberto Brandt, Hecdwin Carreño, Omar Carreño, Carlos Castillo, Sigfredo Chacón, Viviane Chonchol, Isabel Cisneros, Eugenio Espinoza, Lamis Feldman, Jaime Gili, Gego, Dulce Gómez, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Antonio Herrera Toro, Antonio Lazo, Gerd Leufert, Rosario Lezama, Luis Lizardo, Ernesto Montiel, Norma Morales, Leonardo Nieves, Oscar Abraham Pabón, Oscar Pellegrino, Régulo Pérez, Ana María Mazzei, Dianora Pérez-Montilla, Ivan Petrovszky, Wiki Pirela, Jorge Pizzani, Lucía Pizzani, Jurgens Portillo, Adrián Pujol, Carlos Quintana, Luisa Richter, Maruja Rolando, Luis Romero, Octavio Russo, Tito Salas, Antonieta Sosa, Luis Villamizar, Javier Vivas, Miguel von Dangel, Pedro León Zapata, and Carlos Zerpa.
ETC… will be open to visitors until Sunday, May 18, 2025, at Av. Ávila with 8th transversal, Los Chorros, Caracas (Venezuela).
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