London’s Lisson Gallery is turning back the clock with its latest show, Line (until 12 March), which includes works by 15 international artists such as Susan Hiller, Julian Opie, Fred Sandback and Richard Long dating from the late 1960s to today. “Drawing could be regarded as much an intellectual proposition as it is a descriptive exercise, and in Line we find each artist employing line to articulate an idea or a concept,” say the curators Mary Doyle and Kate Macfarlane, the directors of the London-based non-profit Drawing Room. The show draws on the veteran gallery’s rich history—Lisson celebrates its 50th anniversary next year—with one work in particular crossing the ages. Sol LeWitt’s Drawing #165, comprising a diagonal line, was first drawn according to the late artist’s instructions by the gallery founder, Nicholas Logsdail, in 1973. A version of this work, entitled Wall Drawing #157, has been recreated for the Line exhibition. We hear from a gallery source that the work “was re-drawn under close supervision from Logsdail”, with Sol’s exquisite stroke neatly linking Lisson's past and present.
