If the viewer can’t travel, art will be brought to them: in 2023, works by more than 30 of the world’s leading graphic artists will be shown in more than 10 cities. The contemporary drawings will be selected by private galleries, cultural foundations or museums and presented in a new combination in each country.
The concept of the nomadic exhibition Evocations was born under the overwhelming weight of the cultural, ethical, social and political crises of the recent and present, the pandemic and the general sense of insecurity, but its intellectual roots go back further: a position of artistic discourse seeking answers to the cultural challenges of the millennium, in which many artists sought deeper, more complex and empathetic responses to superficial hedonism, spectacular theatricality, and empty material fetishism in their entertainment and decorative manifestations.
According to Lóránd Hegyi, there is a need for a structure for the presentation of contemporary art that makes current messages as easily and flexibly accessible as possible, and drawing is the medium in which the anxiety-ridden narrative of our existence is most naturally and self-evidently presented. It rhymes well with the precariousness and fragility of the contemporary situation.
Exhibiting artists: Christoph Mayer (Austria), Michael Ziegler (Austria), Fabrice Souvereyns (Belgium), Barthelemy Toguo (Cameroon), Veronika Holcova (Czech Republic), Elzevir (France), Marine Joatton (France), Gábor Áron (Hungary), Amir Nave (Israel), Ruth Barabash (Israel), Melanie Daniel (Israel), Nir Alon (Israel), Lello Lopez (Italy), Luca Caccioni (Italy), Ugo Giletta (Italy), Soyoung Um (South Korea), Odonchimeg Davaadorj (Mongolia), Anya Belyat-Giunta (Russia), Maria Pogorzhelskaya (Russia), Allison Hawkins (United States)