»Drawing II«

Due to the construction work at the faculty, we will be drawing at various locations in Darmstadt. We will concentrate on the depiction of architecture in the context of landscape, nature and people. In addition, we will translate our perceptions into drawings in an experimental way, e. g. drawing directly on a tram journey or documenting objects in urban space with pen and paper.

Learning by looking closely will be essential part of this course. How does the surface of an object look like ? Where is light and where is shadow ? How can I manage to materialise my perception by pencil on the paper ? At the same time, we want to deal with simplification and abstraction and practise all this in various tasks.

Participation in the exercises and presentation of the summer semester exercises on June 2nd, 2025 and final submission of all summer and winter term drawings on July 28th, 2025

- Successful completion of the sub-modules in the winter and summer semesters is a prerequisite for passing the overall module 15-21-0413 Design I – Drawing – (registration for exam via TUCaN is mandatory)

Topic of the summer linocut course is »The Village«. In this context we will take a closer look into different images and kinds of depicturing villages. What does characterise a village, what are the differences regarding space and landscape. What does the heart of a village look like and which historical- and identity-defining characteristics are there to be find.

Like always generated images as templates for our linocuts come from our own perception and phantasy resp. are a result of our artificial approach.

We will build a village model from paper and/or wood together in this course and all students will take pictures individually in a village nearby. Later these photos will be translated into the lino medium. Exchanging about our views of living in a village during this course and an ongoing discussion of generated images will finally probably lead into an exhibition.

In this gallery seminar, we will look at the exhibition of pictures and objects between the poles of art and architecture. How do exhibitions affect us and how can they enrich us in an architectural context? How can we present works of art, models and ideas to people today? For example, what do the hanging, framing and atmosphere of a gallery mean for the overall impression of an exhibition?

Together we will deal with these numerous questions and plan and realise concrete exhibitions in the Parkhaus gallery. Another important part of the seminar is the organisation and active participation in the regular ping-pong discussions in the gallery. We are also planning to take an active part in the first »Showcase« at the Architecture Faculty this year.

For artists the atelier is perhaps the most important place. Here is it, where things are tested, researched, invented, and discarded. It is important that artists in artist’s ateliers are feeling safe, comfortable, and undisturbed. For some artists it is important that the room has good light conditions, others appreciate the peace and quiet. Atelier conditions are crucial, because of this room is the location for sensitive intuition, and this intuition demands different atmospheric conditions in different cases. The high of the walls, the outlook, the ground, light, warmth, all of these are important factors for flats, for ateliers they are of an essential meaning. Ateliers are sensitive rooms, at the same time they have to be insensible to colours, dirt, and odours.

Artist ateliers are working places, where free works are created. We would like to examine real and painted ateliers, and we want to paint ateliers by ourselves, rooms, in which we think we could work freely in an artistic way on our own.

The view is described in the dictionary as a picture or image of a city, a building or a landscape. It could represent something existing or fictitious. Our ideas and imaginations, for example, are given a space that makes it possible to visually experience what something could look like. The basis for this is a two-dimensional surface.

If we take a closer look at the word foundation, it is made up of “ground” and “location”. Ground: Ground as a base; earth's surface, soil. Location: Place where something is located (in relation to its surroundings). The foundation, in turn, describes -among other things- something that can be assumed/ built upon. Therefore, the two-dimensional surface can be understood as the base for a kind of (isolated) location on which you create the image of a building through geometric and aesthetic methods. We can read this image, understand it and derive something from it. This is largely implied by the combination of lines, surfaces and colours that we arrange in the picture.

Various digital and analogue media are available to create an image. We will examine and compare these. In this summer semester's seminar, we will deal with the media, image composition, image effect and word meanings.

Window, Door, and Gate are the essential openings to a house. They are entry into the house, lead to the rooms within, framing the image from inside to outside and wise versa. All three terms are standing for transition, a transition we perceive more or less consciously, and which is nonetheless very important for the impression of the house itself.

Like doors in dreams and literature can be a metaphor, so can a window be a frame with continuously changing pictures. For this reason, the frame resp. the format is of so great importance for an image, too. The gate as large-format entry finally orchestrates coming and leaving, and all three elements are in many ways suitable to be the image seminar topic this semester.

We interpret the world in terms of our own experiences and interests. This has a huge influence on how and what we take photos and especially which photographs we take, but what happens when we step out of our usual way of looking at things ? During the seminar an independent series of photographs will be developed around this theme. We will also look at camera techniques, composition and image processing, and develop an appropriate form of presentation for your individual work.

IMPORTANT:

To hand in the first exercise is mandatory, for students looking for an option to slip into the course without having received an admission from the seminar bazaar, too.

First meeting: April 24th, 2025, 3:30 pm, Galerie Parkhaus (r177)

Figure drawing teaches the basics of proportion, perspective, and composition. It trains the perception of physiognomy, posture and movement as essential signs of human appearance.

The aim of this course is to interpret one's own perception and to express it through a free choice of artistic means (graphite, ink, colours).

submission on July 31st, 2025, 11.00 am, r 170