The practice of artists Dmitry Gretsky and Evgenia Katz over the years has been associated with the disclosure of the properties and possibilities of "pencil" drawing. Usually, working with graphite on a piece of paper, whether it's "hand training" as part of a regular academic production, a quick virtuoso sketch, or a sketch for a work, is associated with preparatory or intermediate activities. Gretsky and Katz seem to be shifting their relationship with this technique in two directions at once. For them, a drawing made not with a simple pencil, but with thick, very soft graphite, acquires a fundamental role: it can become a self-confident work, or, for example, turn into the first layer, from which a three-dimensional graphic object grows. But the mode of drawing as a constant "preliminary" work also turns out to be productive for the two co-authors. Artists repeatedly find new techniques within their own practice, so that each work or project seems to push the appearance of the following works.
Text: Anastasia Kotyleva
