Drawing Now: ADN Galeria participates in Drawing Now 2022 featuring works by Albdelkader Benchamma, Carine Brancowitz, Margaret Harrison and Joan Pallé.

Over the years, Abdelkader Benchamma has built a body of work that focuses on drawing. His artistic practice has evolved throughout his career, absorbing references from classical drawing, scientific modeling, comics, Japanese prints and literature. That said, Benchamma´s drawings are not only delicate and highly sophisticated technical creations, but they also contain a deep reflection on the states of matter and the relationship of humans with the physical and metaphysical environment. The aesthetic evolution of his compositions goes hand in hand with the contents he explores and thus a transformation that goes from the figurative to the abstract and from the individual to the cosmic, can be seen. Benchamma proposes an expanded drawing that overflows the boundaries of the paper to occupy the exhibition space, creating a new dimension that surrounds the viewer.

French artist dividing her time between Rome & Paris. She studied illustration, screen printing and lithography before starting out in a fashion studio and carving her identity as an artist with biro, paint and china markers. Her hand-drawn slightly surreal work oscillates between captivating details & intricate patterns, silences, layered with various styles, her work is multifaceted yet simultaneously simplistic. She exhibited her work at the Prince Gong’s Mansion in Beijing, and at Le centquatre in Paris. She has also participated on a number of shows in Perpignan, Landerneau, London and Brussels, and has colaborated with many brands & magazines as Dior, Opéra national de Paris, Kitsuné, Le Coq Sportif, Céline, Converse, Iceberg, SFR, Nokia,The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Elle, Die Zeit magazine, Figaro madame, Marie Claire, Wear, playboy, Arena, Avant Garde, Vogue Pelle, Biba, Cosmo and Rolling Stones magazine.

Pioneer of British and European feminist art, Margaret Harrison questions notions of gender, identity, politics, social class, domestic violence and exploitation of women’s labor and sexuality. Over her more than 40 years working as an artist, Harrison has reported local and international cultural and political issues throughout a variety of media including drawings, oil paintings, watercolors and large installations. She uses iconography, pop art and consumer brands to reflect upon female, male and transgendered identity, often subverting with humor gender roles that the society has assigned. She has had solo shows in institutions such as the New Museum in New York, the Middlesbourgh Institute of Modern in England and Azkuna Centroa in Bilbao. She has participated in many group shows such as Tate Modern and Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Joan Pallé lives and works in Basel. He obtained a BA in Fine Arts (2017) from the University of Barcelona. His work relates to critic theory, ironically using the hegemonic visual imaginary and introducing references from the counterculture. In recent years he has received a production grant from Centre d’art la Panera (2017), an award from Rocaumbert Fabrica de Creació (2019), Residency and production grant from Homessesions in collaboration with art 3 (2018), and an investigation grant from the Sala d’Art Jove (Generalitat de Catalunya) and Macba (2018). His works has been exhibited at Biennale Jeune Creation Européene. Le Beffroi, Ville de Montrouge, Paris (2017) and Biennale Jeune Creation Européene at kunst bygningen i vrå, Danmark (2018).