Jose Antonio Suarez Londono - the Yearbooks

This publication evolves from Colombian artist Jose Antonio Suarez Londono's 2012 exhibition at The Drawing Center in New York. The volume features full-color plates of drawings from a selection of Londono's notebooks (or "yearbooks") dating from 1997 to the present and taken from the artist's ongoi [...]
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This publication evolves from Colombian artist Jose Antonio Suarez Londono's 2012 exhibition at The Drawing Center in New York. The volume features full-color plates of drawings from a selection of Londono's notebooks (or "yearbooks") dating from 1997 to the present and taken from the artist's ongoing project in which he creates a daily drawing based on a book or series of books that he reads over the course of a year. These literary touchstones have included such diverse sources as the diaries of Paul Klee, Franz Kafka and Eugene Delacroix; Ovid's "Metamorphoses"; W.G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn"; and Patti Smith's poetry. The drawings themselves are refined and spare, imbued with a true classical draughtsman's eye for nuance and detail, in a unique approach to depicting contemporary artifacts. The accompanying essay is by curator Claire Gilman.