Thomas Scheibitz (b. 1968)
Untitled
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'S. 95' (centre right edge)
marker, graphite and ink on paper
11⅜ x 8⅛in. (29 x 20.6cm.)
Executed in 1995

Provenance:
Bonakdar Jancou, New York.
Private Collection, London.

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Specialist Notes:

‘Drawing is an intermediary step, as it were, in the, let’s call it the sketching process, the development of a roughly outlined idea. I always have to have a kind of sketchbook with me; on the one hand that means a digital camera, on the other an actual sketchbook of the kind we all know, where I initially note down, draw or stick in ideas or things that inspire me, similar works I’ve seen or whatever, and sometime later a drawing will develop from this. In order to preserve a certain sense of visual order, these sketchbooks are always the same size, which is the standard A4 format or, when I’m in America, the standard US letter format. So first of all these ideas are brought to the same size in a formal sense; then they are laid out next to each other - more or less in terms of content - so as to create a filter or method of evaluating them. Drawing is in fact almost the most important connecting link between the idea and its execution’ (T. Scheibitz, quoted in Thomas Scheibitz: About 90 Elements/Tod im Dschungel, exh. cat., Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2007).

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