Original Chikei｜Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hilar Stadler, David Glanzmann『drawing together』
The book 'drawing together' revisits the Surrealist Cadavre exquis with contemporary artists worldwide.Summary
The article reviews the publication 'drawing together' (2022), compiled by curators Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hilar Stadler, and David Glanzmann. Issued as a catalogue of the exhibition at the Bâle Museum of Fine Arts, the volume gathers around 200 works created by contemporary artists who reenacted the 1920s Surrealist drawing game Cadavre exquis. Participants include Dan Graham, Gerhard Richter, Junya Ishigami and others, and the project is presented as a physical, hand‑drawn practice that counters the homogenising force of digital communication. Obrist continued the analog drawings on his Instagram during the pandemic, deliberately inserting fragile, unpredictable lines into the fast‑moving timeline. The book also references Caribbean thinker Édouard Glissant to argue for a globality that preserves difference against the one‑world logic of global capitalism. Ultimately, the work is framed as an anarchic resistance that uses hand‑drawn lines to re‑assert bodily presence and diverse worldviews in an era of rapid digital media.
(Source：artscape)