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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

One-Line Drawing

July 8 – July 31, 1997

Carl André, Arman, Jac Bisschops, Ansuya Blom, Louise Bourgeois, Mel Bochner, Buster Cleveland, Lisa
Couwenbergh, Maria van Elk, Alphons Freijmuth, Helen Frik, Gladys, Andy Goldsworthy, Klass Gubbels, Geoffrey
Hendricks, Hans Hellingwerf, Herman van der Hoff, Jenny Holzer, Servie Janssen, Rik van Lersel, Rolf Julius, Richard
Long, Sol LeWitt, Reinier Lucassen, Helmut Löhr, Robert Mangold, Vik Muniz, Ronald Noorman, Walter van Oel, Mai
van Oers, Yoko Ono, Reidnoud Oudshoorn, Coby Prins, Thomas Rajlich, Andrei Roiter, Tom Sachs, Fred Sandback, Dov
Shlein, Joseph Semah, Serge Spitzer, Danielle Vidal, Joe Zito, Tom Zwerver

One-Line Drawing, a group exhibition, will open at Ubu Gallery on July 8th and run through July 31st. Each of the
40 artists in the exhibition has created an artwork based on a directive from the gallery limiting the finished work to one
uninterrupted action in the medium of the artist’s choice. About half of the exhibition, which originally consisted of
Dutch and German artists, was installed earlier this year at Parade Gallery in Amsterdam. Ubu Gallery has added the
work of numerous American artists to complete the show.

The exhibition emphasizes the innate heterogeneity of contemporary artists. It posits the notion that artists, when
challenged by rigid and specific pre-determined boundaries, will be inspired to produce works of art differing significantly
from one another, thereby reinforcing our awareness of their individual visions and varied aesthetics.

Jenny Holzer, for instance, participates with a one-line LED text. Mel Bochner paints a single line on a canvas, Fred
Sandback carves a one-line diptych in wood, and Carl André has mailed a one-line postcard addressed to Ubu Gallery.
Joe Zito provides a rubbing from a cookie jar. Andy Goldsworthy has documented a line in the snow, Vik Muñiz
photographs an ambiguous one-line wire sculpture, and Helmut Löhr has painted a single, wide brushstroke over a
Polaroid photograph taken from the window of his loft on the day he moved out.

Some of the other Americans participating in the show are: Arman, Louise Bourgeois, Buster Cleveland, Sol LeWitt,
Richard Long, Robert Mangold, Tom Sachs, and Yoko Ono. Among the Dutch artists are Maria van Elk, Alphons
Freijmuth, Reinier Lucassen, Mai van Oers, and Andre Roiter.

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Persbericht UBU Gallery New York 1997 | One line drawing. For immediate release 1997

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