16 December 2003 - 31 January 2004
35 Heddon Street, London W1
Raymond Pettibon's second show at Sadie Coles HQ combines recent work with a group of drawings from the 1980s.
‘She was always far away when she read; I do not know that she was absorbed in her book. She could read for hours, but she seldom turned the leaves, and I had the impression that the pages became steadily fuller and fuller, as if by looking she added words to them, certain words that she needed and which were not there. So it seemed to me as I went on drawing. I was drawing slowly without any very decided intention, and when I stuck, I would survey the picture with my head bent a little to the right; in that position I always found out soonest what was lacking.’
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, 1910.