carlier | gebauer, Madrid, is pleased to announce a group exhibition, opening Friday, 15 November from 1-3 pm. From Hand To Mind will include works by Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Luis Gordillo, Julie Mehretu, Edi Rama, Jessica Rankin, Amy Sillman, Erik Schmidt, and Janaina Tschäpe. The exhibition marks the gallery’s first collaboration with the Spanish
artist Luis Gordillo. 

Drawing possesses a fleeting quality. At times tentative and provisional, it has the ability to make an idea or a mood tangible and visible—therefore traversing the boundaries between visible and invisible worlds. A liminal and unfixed space, drawings are always on the verge of becoming and disappearing, as art historian Michael Newman notes, “drawing, with each stroke, re-enacts desire and loss. Its peculiar mode of being lies between the withdrawal of the trace in the mark and the presence of the idea it prefigures.” From Hand To Mind explores the various ways that mark-making and line function as an intimate form of language, serving as a conduit to an artist’s consciousness.