Contemporary drawing,
tomorrow's heritage

The excellence of public and private collections of works on paper should be an invitation to better observe the medium in its contemporary aspect. In view of this, the Contemporary Drawing Fair has this year taken the initiative of creating the new label "Paris Capitale du Dessin" favoring a friendly partnership with major Parisian museums and private foundations.

It was thus a question, beyond the short duration of the Fair, of inscribing a suite of asides and discoveries on the theme of contemporary drawing in the seasonal rhythm of Parisian exhibitions, and of giving a large public access to works that are often intimate, are revelatory of a veritable work of shaping by artists and creators, either of a genesis, or of a well-founded and autonomous practice.

"Paris capitale du dessin", brings together under a common label the exhibitions organized by the Galerie des arts Graphiques at the Pompidou Centre, the Musée d'art  moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Halle Saint Pierre, the fondation d'entreprise Ricard , the fondation Rustin... From any of these incursions, each will find, we hope, tender impulses, fantasia and fantasies, variations on or of the lines of an animated work, graphic games or intimate diaries, in which the body, the face, the tension of time, are constantly present in works both figurative or abstract. They are unique works which admit both the weight of a pictorial language and the joy of invention : contemporary drawing represents both signs of the everyday and the inheritance of tomorrow.

The label "Paris Capitale du dessin"  will be applied from 2009 to exhibitions of works on paper taking place in various galleries in partnership with the Fair.