I AM HAUNTED BY DÜRER. I read recently that in examining closely his sketchbook of silverpoints, scholars could find no discernible hesitations or preliminary marks, that everything emerged fully formed from the tip of his stylus. I find this terrifying.Under his spell, I have made the following drawings with an electronic tablet, a device that allows for corrections both infinite and invisible. I pray that he might smile at my choice of tools. Dürer was an archangel of the printing press, the wooden block, the copper plate, the engraver’s burin; the tablet, too, lends itself well to broad and
ON THE OCCASION of a major Albrecht Dürer exhibition now on view at London’s National Gallery, art historian Christopher P. Heuer reflects on the German artist’s revolutionary post-studio practice. To round out this view, Artforum invited Los Angeles–based artist Julien Nguyen to contribute a portfolio of new drawings. The results, made on a digital tablet in response to Dürer’s art, are a testament not only to the power of the Renaissance master’s images but to the enduring fascination of the printmaking technologies that sit at the heart of his restless production.
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