# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16046143-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-02-28T16:21:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive 
This page from Drawing Papers 88 features “Study for Erikhthon,” drawn with ink and pencil on paper by #IannisXenakis in 1973.
The 2010 exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explored the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). A leading figure in twentieth century music, Xenakis was trained as a civil engineer, then became an architect and developed revolutionary designs while working with Le Corbusier. Comprised of nearly 100 documents created between 1953 and 1984, the exhibition included rarely-seen hand-rendered scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and graphic scores. 
Co-curator of the exhibition, Carey Lovelace, writes in her catalogue essay that Xenakis’s preparatory drawings for the seventeen-and-a-half-minute piano concerto, Erikhthon, consist of spidery shapes that “were inscribed along two ‘tracks’ – an upper, narrower strip of graph paper for the piano line, and a lower, larger one for the orchestra. The dendrite, or branching projection, is transposed – or rotated, flipped, turned upside-down – through the course of the piece. In notation, these shapes were translated into chromatic cluster-type runs on the piano and into sweeping orchestral glissandi.”
The Drawing Papers are a series of publications documenting The Drawing Center’s exhibitions and public programs and providing a forum for the study of drawing. -Kate Robinson, Bookstore Manager

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