until Saturday March 26 2011

Galererie Thaddaeus Ropac
T : +43 662 881 393
Mirabellplatz 2
5020 Salzburg
Austria

Gallery management inquiries
Ulrike Neutatz
ulrike.neutatz@ropac.at
www.ropac.net/

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is opening now a new exhibition space for drawings in the former EDITIONS premises in Salzburg.
The first exhibition IDEA AND OBJECT is a multifaceted group exhibition of graphic works by seven internationally distinguished artists, with studies and representations of various stages of development in three-dimensional works on paper as the linking theme.

In contemporary art, the term "graphic" is undergoing a radical change. Traditional techniques such as etching, woodcut, charcoal, chalk and pencil drawing, watercolour and print are now combined with new media. Digital processing, photography, collage and mixed media are increasingly used, blurring the boundaries of familiar drawing techniques. The central element, however, is still the simple line -the characteristic feature of the abstraction and reduction of visual perception - though now used in free combination.

Stephan Balkenhol, Tony Cragg, Matali Crasset, Antony Gormley, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Wolfgang Laib, Bernhard Martin, Marc Quinn, Not Vital and Erwin Wurm are on show.