YO DIBUJO
I draw all ways (always). ‘Thoughts and Ideas’ formulate and ferment in the head, then a point arrives when ‘in my case’ I draw these thoughts and ideas. They formulate from experience, life and observance, my eye is my camera, the mind is the hard drive. I draw on a small scale, but dream on a large, all these drawings have the intention of being made on architectural or similar surfaces, if chance is given. I draw form and the solid, as a student of sculpture I drew before making, now I am making as I draw.
Love DT
The creative process of an artist must be invariable and unalterable. Proof of this can be found in the most recent works by David Tremlett, to be displayed at Miguel Marcos Gallery’s third individual exhibit opening 10 May and titled I DRAW.
In drawings included in this exhibit can be observed the constant flow of ideas transformed into the two-dimensionality of paper. An overwhelming vision, full of strength and resolution. The precision of the drawing delves into architecture, together with a chromatic range of basic tones, free of any stridency and adapted in a geometric singularity intrinsic to the discipline.
Neither painting nor sculpture, David Tremlett (United Kingdom, 1945) is part of the standard artistic tradition. This attitude is not anecdotal nor a personal fad. Rather, it shuns all academicism and conventionalism, allowing him to select the focus of his entire artistic career.
Two basic elements are mixed in the exhibited works: the first, the trip, with all that it entails: distance, discovery, and encounter. The second is the immutable desire for artistic production that does not fit with the familiar stereotypes (paintings, sculptures, photographs). Tremlett bases his work on the interpenetration and creation of landscapes with a language of constant experimentation: sculptures with pigment; architectures with lines.
He makes relentless use of lowly materials such as pastel, pencil, and paper. Though his constant and unshakable desire is to cast some of his works as monumental compositions, others are reduced in size. In this exhibit, he remains attentive to fantasy, play, subjectivity expressed in a word.
Imaginative drawings in the concept, intelligent in the form, avoiding the usual classicisme to plunge into the ambivalence of the structured, ordered universe, yet cracked and fragmented. In this flow of ideas within geometry, we can glimpse a singular significance of simple elements, volumes, and shapes overlapping and intertwining in formations, creating a weave of compressed atmosphere all its own.
Permanent proof of the above mentioned is the “Wall drawing” titled: Barcelona Corner (Pile Up #49) that has been part of the gallery space since 2016. A representative involvement of architectural figures, for a constructivist nature, that leaves predictable angular forms, establishing a framework of greater dynamism..
Tremlett’s long list of individual exhibits includes the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; the Pecci Museum in Prato, Italy; and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He earned a Turner Prize nomination in 1992 for his wall drawings shown around the world, including those in the city of Palermo’s Palazzo Butera in Sicily, Italy. From the commission of a large mural drawing for the noble floor of this emblematic palace, at the end of 2018, there were many of his interventions into this palace until 2020. Often works of environmental proportions, he spread the pigment right on the walls with his bare hands. Tremlett’s works in Palazzo Butera confront the 18th-century frescoes by Fumagalli and Martorana and reinterprets in a contemporary view, the squaring theme and the advancement of perspective.
Another of his recent actions took place last September 2022, on a wall in the Horti Borromaici gardens of the Almo Collegio Borromeo in Pavia, Italy, as part of a process of revitalization and reconstruction of the space for the public. Starting this year, the orangerie of the Hôtel de Béthune-Sully, located at 62 rue Saint-Antoine in Paris, France, has become host to one of his most recent wall drawings, Wall in 27 Sections.
