# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BfLvGnvBg5P
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16046171-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-02-14T16:12:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive

This page from Drawing Papers 86 features an untitled ink on paper drawing created by #UnicaZürn in 1966.

The 2009 exhibition, Unica Zürn: Dark Spring, presented approximately 50 ink and watercolor works on paper by the late German artist and writer, spanning from the early 1950s until her tragic suicide in 1970. Already an established writer and poet, Zürn began her drawings after encounter with Surrealism in 1953.  The Surrealist automatist technique, to which Zürn aligned herself, purposed a strategy of mark making that strived to be free of rational control and so to articulate the repressed content of the unconscious.

Part whimsical cartoons, part intricate portraits, Zürn’s chimerical fantasies make for drawings that are deeply revelatory yet playfully imaginative. 
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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