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To celebrate the launch of Graphite: Animated Traces, join us on Saturday 30th November for a day of engaging programming and discussion.
Bring your sketchpads for an afternoon of drawing – pencils are provided. With sessions roaming throughout the gallery, explore various graphite tools for mark making.
Saturday 30 November
Drawing Session: 3PM
Book launch & Screening: 4:30PM
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About the book:
Graphite: Animated Traces profiles the material and cultural history of graphite as a creative medium, with close attention to its important role in contemporary art and animation.
Animation scholar Alla Gadassik teases out the medium’s temperament and significance by turning to the unfolding and provisional status of the drawn moving image, considering graphite as a medium of emergent thought, contemplation, tender intimacy and impermanence.
What ways of knowing does graphite enable as a drawing medium? How does animating with graphite – making moving images through extended and repetitive acts of drawing – allow us to understand the world differently?
Responding with vivid analysis of pencil drawings by celebrated artists such as Georges Seurat, Vija Celmins, Park Seo-Bo and Jasper Johns, as well as animated films by Amy Kravitz, Ryo Orikasa, Alexandra Ramires and ten other artists, Graphite: Animated Traces offers a richly detailed portrait of an everyday material we often take for granted.
Graphite: Animated Traces
Alla Gadassik
Editors: Zara Stanhope and Anna Briers
Design: Kalee Jackson
RRP NZD$12
You can purchase your copy at the Govett-Brewster Store, or on our website from Sat 30 Nov.
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Image credit: Cameron Kletke, you feel soft (still), 2022. © Cameron Kletke and Animate Materials Workshop.
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