#calligraphic drawing

[honoriastarbuck]

Zen chicken paintings from November 2018.  Some of them are available as prints on Saatchiart https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/289910

[the-drawing-center]

León Ferrari

“Art is not beauty or novelty; art is effectiveness and disruption.”

                                                                            -- León Ferrari

León Ferrari (1920-2013), an Argentine self-taught artist, who created artworks ranging from painting, collage, sculpture to poetry. Living through the Dirty War in Argentina, he suffered from the loss of family members and friends. During those years, he went into exile in Brazil and his artworks became highly socially and politically engaged.

In 2004, León Ferrari: Politiscripts was the first U.S. solo museum exhibition of Ferrari’s work. The exhibition, curated by Luis Camnitzer, focused on Ferrari's calligraphic drawings from the 1960s as they relate to his influential role in exploring art as a political agent. About these works, Ferrari wrote, “I draw silent handwritten words, which tell things, with lines that recall voices. And I write drawings that recite memories that words cannot say.”

Images:

León Ferrari, Untitled, 1964. Ink on paper.

León Ferrari, Untitled (marcada N 408), 1963. Ink on paper.

León Ferrari, Escritura deformada I, 1964. Ink on paper.