
XENIA: Imaginary Lines
From 14 to 22 November 2024
Xenia Artistic Retreat is delighted to announce, Imaginary Lines; an exhibition exploring the work
of contemporary artists who have participated in Xenia, shown in dialogue with important Old
Master drawings from the collection of Xenia’s founder and patron, Bianca Roden.
For centuries, artists have used drawing to experiment and Imaginary Lines explores the
constantly evolving nature of mark-making through time, examining what artists working today
have inherited from the masters of the past, challenging the iconography of the Western canon
and using or subverting them for contemporary audiences. By pairing contemporary artists with
works by the Old Masters, it is possible to trace the development of drawing and how practice,
perception and the application of drawing have evolved.
The artists in Imaginary Lines include: Nao Matsunaga, Sophie Ruigrok, Iain
Andrews, Daisy May Collingridge, Abbie Griffiths, Haroun Hayward, Sarah Knowland, Graham
Little, Oren Pinhassi and Hugo Wilson. The collection of Old Masters include works by: Il Parmigianino, Bernardo Strozzi, Il
Guericino, Philips Wouwerman, Giambattista Piazzetta, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Jean Baptiste
Oudry, Nicholas Lancret, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francois Boucher, Jean-Honore Fragonard,
Hubert Robert, Théodore Caruelle D'Aligny, Walter Sickert, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.