Chapter 15: Curatorial label for "Untitled"

Episode 15 February 28, 2023 00:01:16
Chapter 15: Curatorial label for "Untitled"
CUAG Audio Description Tour for Drawing on Our History
Chapter 15: Curatorial label for "Untitled"

Feb 28 2023 | 00:01:16

/

Show Notes

This chapter is the text written by curator Heather Anderson for Untitled. It is a minute long. 

Kim Moodie is known for his highly detailed ink drawings. Mining and mixing historical traditions and cultural genres from illuminated manuscripts to comic books, graphic novels and children’s books, Moodie has developed a striking lexicon of imagery that densely populates the drawing space and offers infinite narrative possibilities.

Moodie created this fantastical work with twenty-five pages torn from a sketchbook and arranged in a grid. Each page is fully activated with the artist’s energetic, bold black lines depicting a host of beings and objects. We can observe that the drawings do not continue from one page to the next, yet the artist’s use of line, pattern and balance of negative and positive space creates the effect of a continuous, interconnected realm with manifold scenes of action.

Please move to the next stop, make a 180 degree turn and move down the path 2 metres and then turn right. The next stop is another 2 metres ahead. The drawing is slightly to your left.

View Full Transcript

Episode Transcript

Speaker 0 00:00:00 Chapter 15, curatorial label for Untitled. This chapter is the text written by curator Heather Anderson for Untitled. It is a minute long. Speaker 1 00:00:10 Kim Moody is known for his highly detailed ink drawings, mining and mixing historical traditions and cultural genres from illuminated manuscripts to comic books, graphic novels, and children's books. Moody has developed a striking lexicon of imagery that densely populates the drawing space and offers infinite narrative possibilities. Moody created this fantastical work with 25 pages torn from a sketchbook and arranged a grid. Each page is fully activated with the artist's energetic, bold black lines depicting a host of beings and objects. We can observe that the drawings do not continue from one page to the next. Yet the artist's use of line, pattern, and balance of negative and positive space creates the effect of a continuous interconnected realm with manifold scenes of action. Speaker 0 00:01:03 Please move to the next stop. Make a 180 degree turn and move down the path two meters, and then turn right. The next stop is another two meters ahead. The drawing is slightly to your left.

Other Episodes

Episode 20

February 28, 2023 00:01:20
Episode Cover

Chapter 20: "Summer Landscape"

This chapter describes Summer Landscape by Kazuo Nakamura, created in 1954, and measuring 39 by 57 cm. It is a minute long.  This drawing...

Listen

Episode 2

February 28, 2023 00:03:01
Episode Cover

Chapter 2: About the Exhibition

This chapter introduces the exhibition and is 3 minutes long. It was written by CUAG curators Heather Anderson, Sandra Dyck and Danielle Printup. CUAG...

Listen

Episode 21

February 28, 2023 00:01:06
Episode Cover

Chapter 21: Curatorial label for "Summer Landscape"

This chapter is the text written by Mckenzie Holbrook for Summer Landscape. It is a minute long.  A founding member of the 1950s Toronto...

Listen