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From: Red Jones
Category: Books
Date: 05 December 2005
Vitamin D has 109 drawers, loads of nominators, and quite a few authors, with an intro by the Tate's Emma Dexter. Collective responsibility or no one to blame, the book presents a survey of what's cool in drawing now. Of course there is no old-fashioned connection or overriding theme between what's happening in the novelty of the ever dying present, there's obvious diversity and in the melange some witty and some pretty drawing done. Drawing is painting with limited means, as the master matisse said, but vitamin d, companion to the vitamin p for painting, present drawing as being a lot of odd stuff done on walls and even paper with quite a wide range of means, though mostly its drawing because there's quite a lot of blank space, or negative space as art tutors call it, or paper showing as normal people say. The book is for quite pale and printed on that unfinished edge sort of watercolour paper and very mattand is pleasing in it's overall thought about and designed way. If the art world were a book, it would be some pages and objects flung about a room or on the streets, or is that idealistic? Vitamin D shows that artists mostly like private obsessive scratches, pop and fashion imagery , and confusion. But as with P it's nice to see it all collected in one place, book, world.
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