After the Beginning and Before the End: Instruction Drawings

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A collection of drawings framed along the walls of a divided gallery space

Installation view, After the Beginning and Before the End: Instruction Drawings, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2002. 

Location
Hayden & Reference Galleries
Featured Artists
Vito Acconci
Eleanor Antin
Louise Bourgeois
Alexander Calder
Walter De Maria
Robert Gober
Andrew Goldsworthy
Rebecca Horn
Roni Horn
Sol LeWitt
Piet Mondrian
Henry Moore
Pablo Picasso
Robert Rauschenberg
Diego Rivera
Carolee Schneemann
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After the Beginning and Before the End illuminates the nature of art by focusing on the creative process-from the initial moment of inspiration to the final composition — of a broad selection of works by celebrated artists from the early 1930s to the present.

The exhibition includes over 220 examples of “Instruction Drawings” in a variety of forms, such as working drawings, installation instructions, musical scores, sketches, visual or textual memoranda, fabrication notes, and work records.

This exhibition was organized for the Bergen Kunstmuseum in Bergen, Norway, by Jon Hendricks and Gunnar B. Kvaran.

Sponsors

After the Beginning and Before the End is generously supported by the Fifth Floor Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Council for the Arts at MIT. Media sponsor: Herald Media, Inc

Images

A wooden frame standing atop a gray pedestal. In the background, framed drawings hang on the walls
Detailed drawing of a male head from 3 different angles. Reference photos for these drawings are pasted in bottom right
Architectural drawing of the Williams College Museum of Art. Small boxes of color line the left side of the image
Installation photograph of framed drawings, of various sizes and orientations, hung along multiple light gray walls
Framed drawings, of various sizes and orientations, hung along multiple light gray walls and placed atop gray pedestals
A wooden frame standing atop a gray pedestal. In the background, framed drawings hang on the walls
A collection of drawings framed along the walls of a divided gallery space
Framed black and white drawings are collaged together to fill a gray gallery wall
On a pedestal, a wooden frame houses a drawing on yellow paper. Gallery walls are filled with additional framed drawings
Above a cushioned bench, bold, black wall text reads “A Force of Sufficient Force to Wear Through A Surface (i.e. Frayed)”

Related Publication

After the Beginning and Before the End

2002, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway

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Book cover for After the Beginning and Before the End featuring a drawing of a young blonde girl with black accents around her lip and eyebrow and a tear coming from her eye. Below, there is a list of featured artists.

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