INBOX: Drawing as a Thinking Tool – Stockmans Art Books Prize
image: (c) Yi Zhang
A drawing is the most direct form to visualise an idea or a thought. It depicts the first impetus for creation in the form of writing, a sketch, a series. Sometimes intuitive, as an incentive for something else, sometimes as thought-out as an artistic medium in itself.
Drawing can function as process-based thinking, as research tool, as visual output.
For the students of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, drawing is a way to unlock, discover and question images and thoughts. Yet often, the drawing does not leave the studio.
Publisher Stockmans Art Books wants to make this work visible by offering a price, which makes the disclosure of this hidden drawing possible.
The exhibition Drawing as a Thinking Tool offers an insight into the work of one of the laureates of the first edition in 2019: Yi Zhang (°1996, China) from the In Situ programme. She shares the prize with Nanna Sofie Reseke Mikkelsen (°1994, Denmark) from the graphic design programme. Mikkelsen has an artist publication coming out in the autumn of 2019.
Yi Zhang received her Bachelor's degree in Painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China. She is currently enrolled in the pre-master programme for Fine Arts - In Situ at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.
The drawings, objects and installations in INBOX are titled Nothing.
Nominees:
Youzhi Bi _ Jewellery Design & Gold- and Silversmithing
Nina Faivre _ Jewellery Design & Gold- and Silversmithing
Roselynne (Amy) Faust _ Fine Arts - Sculpture
Lasse Geudens _ Fine Arts - Painting
Julie Illegems _ Theatre Costume Design
Lieke Koopmans _ Fine Arts - Printmaking
Nanna Sofie Reseke Mikkelsen _ Graphic Design
Lucia Mrakovcic _ Fine Arts - Sculpture
Annelies Rasker _ Theatre Costume Design
Maximilian Rittler _ Fashion
Witold Vandenbroeck _ Fine Arts - Painting
Yi Zhang _ Fine Arts - In Situ
image: © Yi Zhang