ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS: How does one’s own assessment change if there is no information at all about the artist? How can one develop a personal definition of value if the sales prices are all identical? What is then a good drawing? ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS is conceptual art and exhibition project all in one. With ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS many single pieces of art become one “Gesamtkunstwerk”. Each and every anonymous artist becomes part of a collective work of art where hierarchies do not exist.

All the drawings are available for a symbolic unit sales-price of € 200 each. The artist’s identity can only be revealed by a sale: the buyer takes the drawing right off the wall and the empty space left behind will be marked with the artist’s full name and place of origin. The given unit sales price should not be seen as a real market price, but as a conceptual place holder for any conceivable amount of money in the art market.

The exhibition was preceded by an international, open call for submissions. There were no guidelines regarding theme or style. There was only one formal rule: the exhibited drawings should be no larger than A3. The artist’s biography, gender or age did not play any role in the selection. The selection for the exhibition has been made anonymously, too.

All drawings are available for a unit sales-price of € 200 each. On site in the gallery. (cash only)Online-sale of all exhibited works 12 – 18 Oktober: www.anonyme-zeichner.de.

From more than 2000 submissions 600 drawings were selected for the show. ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS was founded 2006 by the artist Anke Becker in Berlin, Germany. Since then, more than 8000 artists from all over the world have taken part in the project and numerous shows of ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS took place up until today.

ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS 2015
600 international drawings
compiled by Anke Becker

artQ13
Via Nicola Coviello 15
00165 Roma
www.artq13.com

opening: Friday, 09 October/ 7 pm
opening hours: Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 October / 12 am – 7 pm

Other informations:
www.anonyme-zeichner.de
www.anke-becker.de

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Jacopo Ceccarelli, also known as 2501 (Milan, 1981) is among the most important Italian artists in the current Urban Art scene. The artist has participated in numerous exhibitions and festivals all over the world, showing in prestigious institutions like the Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci in Prato, the Milan Triennale, and the MACRO in Rome. In 2013 he participated in Back 2 Back to Biennale, an official satellite event of the 55th Venice Biennale, and in 2009 he won the Street Art Award at the Metropolis Art Prize 2009 with the video Mask, projected in Times Square, NYC. This year, 2501 will show at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia at the Foro Italico, Rome, in a project created in collaboration with Wunderkammern.
2501 began painting at the age of 14 in his hometown of Milan. After living in Sao Paolo, Brazil, where he came in contact with the school of South American graffiti, the artist began experimenting with a range of techniques and materials, combining painting on canvas, mural painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and documentary. The Milanese artist’s style is distinct from that of other artists for his sinuous and overwhelming wavy lines that invade the work surface, transforming it and giving it a feeling of movement and three-dimensionality. The work becomes hypnotic, capable of activating the imagination and the interpretation of the observer, conjuring images and possible visions. In order to create this effect, 2501 focuses on the simple chromatic pairing of black and white, at times embellished by the color gold.
The solo show at Wunderkammern is the final part in a trilogy of exhibitions developed for the project NOMADIC EXPERIMENT, after those in Miami and Los Angeles. The reflection of the artist for this project begins with the condition that characterizes our contemporaneity, always “on the brink of disaster” as it is articulated by fast, frenetic, fleeting times, which induce a constant mutation of our way of life. The artist indulges this condition by moving, exploring, experimenting new forms, materials, and ideas. The practice of nomadism implies a continuous wandering, briefly adapting to the places traveled before departing once again towards unknown lands. There are no spatial or temporal limitations, nor roadblocks or constraints: 2051’s production of images follows the geographical, but also mental and emotional, meandering of the artist.
The show NOMADIC EXPERIMENT – on the brink of disaster is arranged as an aesthetic exploration which can be experienced on many levels, in relation to the architectural space of the gallery and to the diversified production of the artist. On the ground floor 2501 presents brand new works created using various techniques and materials: paintings on wood, canvas and paper, ceramic installations, and photographs. In addition, the “shreds” will be on display – fragments of material, painting and plaster, taken from interior and exterior walls on which the artist worked. On the lower level 2501 exhibits two videos and “The Machine”, a mechanized installation with which the observers can interact, thus becoming participants in the artistic narration.
For NOMADIC EXPERIMENT – on the brink of disaster, 2501 will create a large exterior mural in the public space. Furthermore, in February the Milanese artist finished the public installation Axonometry of the circle (Istituto Manzi – Via de Magistris 15) for the Wunderkammern project Light Up Torpigna!. The critical essay for the solo show at the gallery is curated by Nina Bassoli and G. Matta.
NOMADIC EXPERIMENT – on the brink of disaster is the concluding exhibition of Wunderkammern’s artistic project Limitless, after the solo shows by the artists Sam3 (Spain), L’Atlas (France), Sten Lex (Italy) and Alexey Luka (Russia). Limitless explores the concept of limitation in its possible shapes and manifestations, designating Art as the preferred means of overcoming barriers that we are subjected to on a daily basis, and for reflecting on limitless reality.

INFO
artist: 2501
title: NOMADIC EXPERIMENT – on the brink of disaster
opening: Tuesday 9th June, 7pm
curated by: Giuseppe Pizzuto
critical essay by: Nina Bassoli and G. Matta
dates: 9th June to 25th July 2015
public support Rome’s 5th District

media partners: D’Ars Magazine, Exibart, Zero, Nufactory, almostCURATORS, Titolo
technical partners: Eurostars Hotels, Eurograph, Oikos, Officina Agricola – Terra di Sapori e di Saperi, Cantine San Marco, Casale del Giglio, Alfani, Trebotti

WUNDERKAMMERN
via Gabrio Serbelloni 124, Rome
website: www.wunderkammern.net
email: wunderkammern@wunderkammern.net
tel: +39 0645435662

free entry
opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 5pm to 8pm
for appointments: +39 3498112973

How does one’s own assessment change if there is no information at all about the artist? How can one develop a personal definition of value if the sales prices are all identical? What is then a good drawing? ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS is conceptual art and exhibition project all in one: Each and every anonymous artist becomes part of a collective work of art where hierarchies do not exist.

In the context of  ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS roughly 700 drawings by 700 international artists will be presented in changing exhibition spaces. The works will be displayed anonymously. Each exhibition is preceded by an international call for submissions, that is open to everyone. Age, biography or gender will not be requested to be disclosed and do not play any role in the selection. The selection for the exhibition will be made anonymously, too.

for submission: click here

open call: submission deadline June 01 2015 (postmark)

exhibition stops: Kunstverein Tiergarten/Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany (opening: July 31 2015; August 01 – 29 2015); artQ13, Rome, Italy (October 2015); GEYSO20, Braunschweig, Germany (November/December 2015); Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim, Germany (March 2016)