Gaep at Drawing Now Art Fair 2024: preview of the presentation
Our first presentation at Drawing Now Art Fair, in the Process sector, brings together new and recent works by Răzvan Anton and Raluca Popa. Indicative of two artistic practices that are process-centred, instead of medium-centred, the selected works reflect the temporality embedded in slow or labour-intensive methodologies, as well as two different approaches to personal collections of images or written materials.
After working for several years with public archives such as the Minerva Press Photo Archive, Răzvan Anton started in 2022 to look at photographs and footage from his family’s collection – images shot mostly by his father during the 1970s and 1980s. The works featured here indicate this shift. The artist still uses a heliographic technique in order to, somewhat paradoxically, excavate a hidden meaning from the surface of the old images, but this time the images are from his family’s collection. He starts by scribbling paper sheets with a blue ball pen, then places a transparent screen with the archival/found image on them and, finally, exposes them to sunlight for weeks or months on the windows of his studio. In Anton’s practice, time has patience.

Art fair details
Drawing Now Art Fair 2024
Gaep, Booth PR2
With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute
Address
Carreau du Temple, Paris
Public Opening Hours
21–23 March: 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
24 March: 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.