Videos shot at an exhibition of my work at LAPIEZA gallery in Madrid, Spain in April 2011. During the exhibition I drew objects in the gallery that had been chosen or created by other artists. I mounted the drawings on cardboard and displayed them in the gallery.
While displaying ready-made works, yellow banana skins and black and white banana skins, I drew some of the junk art objects in the gallery and 2 items (crash helmet and gloves) provided by visitors.
Here’s another video made by the people at Lapieza in Madrid. I’m shown drawing a small souvenir Real Madrid football, dismantling it as I draw, cutting the drawings from cardboard and then glueing them to the gallery wall.
The Animate Objects #2 exhibition opens tomorrow afternoon. I may add a never-before-seen piece of work, ready for the opening.
Here are a few pictures of the show…
Cut-out drawings of objects by Paul Doeman.
13th – 22nd August Wednesday – Sunday 12-6pm
You’re an animate object, a sum of many parts. Just like a rucksack, chair or ladder you can be taken apart. What is it to be an object? Is what something is just the product of its many functions? Animate objects was the name of an exhibition I put on in 1998; this show is named ”Animate objects #2″ with a view to continuing some of those ideas.
Life-size drawings in oil pastel on paper and cut-out, dance and show-off the personalities of some of the objects that surround us.
The exhibition is at 242 gallery, 242 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9DA.