Tom Wesselmann: A Line to Greatness

Galerie Gmurzynska presents “A Line to Greatness”, a curated showcase of Tom Wesselmann’s signature steel drawings from the 1980s and 90s. Widely renowned for their technical and conceptual innovation, Wesselmann first experimented with transposing his vivid drawing practice onto the arguably cold and rigid medium of metal around 1983. Having time and again been at the forefront in reconfiguring the latest technologies to serve his own artistic goals, such as the vacuum-formed plastic paintings “American Nudes” from the 1960s, Wesselmann’s steel drawings were deemed by the artist to represent the decisive next chapter in his oeuvre. The continual refinement of this technique would therefore greatly occupy the artist for decades to come. Wesselmann’s excitement over exploring the hitherto unheard-of possibility to literally draw in metal clearly comes across in the first critical monograph on his oeuvre