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ARTISTS:
Corydon Cowansage
Irma Blank (Collezione Ramo)
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Irma Blank - Ur-schrift ovvero Avant-testo, 2000-2001, Pen on paper, 25 x 17.6 cm. Courtesy Collezione Ramo, Milan
Corydon Cowansage, Blue, Red, Pink, 2024, acrylic on paper, 24 x 24 cm, Courtesy the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan/New York, Photo by Olivia Divecchia
Corydon Cowansage answers questions from.
Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, curator of the Collezione Ramo
What is drawing for you?
Drawing for me is a way to experiment and articulate my thoughts. I use drawing to work out my ideas before I start on paintings.
Which techniques and creative processes do you use when working on paper?
I make many quick, rough sketches in pen on cheap printer paper. They are piled up around my studio and hanging on the walls. I use these drawings to figure out what to paint. The approach I use to drawing is very different from my paintings - my paintings are relatively planned out and predetermined, whereas when I draw I'm making something on the spot and improvising. Sometimes when I begin a drawing I have no idea where it's going. I often draw and redraw and iterate on something until it works, and so I end up drawing many versions of one idea.
Why did you choose this work from Collezione Ramo?
I connected to the intense, repeated mark making in Irma Blank's piece. I like how chaotic her drawing feels, but also organized and orderly. Though our work is very different in many ways, we both use this type of frenetic mark making to explore our ideas and experiences.
CORYDON COWANSAGE (1985, Philadelphia) - Lives and works in New York City.
Through a vibrant palette and a very precise study of composition, Cowansage appropriates the large format, populating space with plant and anthropomorphic elements, simplified to the point of becoming unrecognizable. His main theme is the relationship between nature and artifice, which he restores in works with particularly strident acid tones.