Artists in conversation with Isobel Whitelegg

Panel 4 at the Travelling Lines Conference (TrAIN).

Drawing is enjoying a renaissance – in art education, art practice, curating and research. Drawing is on the move: while still subsidiary, it has become established as an autonomous art with a primary status. Travelling Lines brings together scholars, artists, curators and collectors to create an international forum to consider three key themes: itinerant modes of drawing by Latin America based artists that prioritise investigation and exploration, as line travels off the page and out of the studio into the environment; how the nomadic practices of artists necessitate conceptual and low-key strategies associated with drawing, an especially portable medium; and how itinerant and other modes of drawing circulate within the transnational circuits of the globalised art world. Focusing on one medium, speakers address how visual languages participate in, depend on, and travel across local as well as global territories.

The conference coincides with the exhibition The Peripatetic School: Itinerant drawing from Latin America, curated by Tanya Barson, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern.

Brigida Baltar, (born 1959, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro). Solo exhibition - Um Céu Entre Paredes/An Indoor Heaven, Firstsite, Colchester (2006); recent group exhibitions include Brigida Baltar, Marginalia, d’après Edgar Allan Poe, Espaço Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon (PT) (2010); 7ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (BR) (2009).

André Komatsu (born 1978, São Paulo, Brazil. Lives and works in São Paulo). Recent solo exhibitions: Acaso por intenção, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo (BR) (2010); ProjetoBolsa Pampulha, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (BR) (2006). Recent group exhibitions: AFTER UTOPIA, Museo Centro Pecci, Prato (IT); 7ª Bienal do Mercosul, Grito e Escuta, Rio Grande do Sul (BR); When Lives Become Form: Creative Power from Brazil, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (USA) touring to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (JP) &, Brazilian Embassy in Tokyo, MOT (Museum of Contemporary Art), Tokyo (JP) (2009).

Mateo López (Born 1978, Bogotá, Colombia. Lives and works in Bogotá). Recent solo exhibitions: Made to Measure, Gasworks, London (UK) (2010); Deriva, MUSAC, León (ES) (2009); Diario de Motocicleta, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medllín (MDE 07), Medellín (CO) (2007). Recent group exhibitions: 8ª Bienal de Mercosur, Ensayos de Geopoética, Porto Alegre (BR) (2011); 29 Bienal de Sao Paulo, ‘Há sempre um copo de mar para um homem navegar, São Paulo (BR) (2010).

Nicolas Páris (Born 1977, Bogotá, Colombia. Lives and works in Bogotá). Recent solo exhibitions: 2010: Interaction Method*Random Order, LABOR, México DF (MX) (2010); Classroom, MAMM (Museum of Modern Art of Medellín), Medellín (CL) ongoing (2009); Laboratory 987, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and León MUSAC, León (ES) (2008). Recent group exhibitions include: ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice (IT) (2011); Model Kits, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and León MUSAC, León (ES) (2010).

Isobel Whitelegg, Director of MA Curating at Chelsea College of Art and Design. She specialises in the history and theory of modern and contemporary art from Latin America.