Drawing the Invisible: Drawing Beyond Visual Perception in the Serial Drawing Practices of Dieter Roth (1930-1998), Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) and Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009)

‘Drawing the Invisible: Drawing Beyond Visual Perception in the Serial Drawing Practices of Dieter Roth (1930-1998), Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) and Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009)’ examines the relationship between drawing, perception and reality. Starting from the findings in Jacques Derrida's (1930-2004) Mémoires d'aveugle (1990), the doctoral project questions the phenomenological assumption that drawing can penetrate visible reality. Derrida's paradoxical observation that the very creation of art is grafted not on the visible but on invisible realities is explored in three case studies around the serial drawing practices of Dieter Roth, Maria Lassnig and Philippe Vandenberg.