This collection of his Jean Cocteau-like sketches, features multiple self-portraits, as well as images of Leonard Cohen’s homes in Montreal and on the Greek island of Hydra, “are all little fragments of Cohen family history.” Cohen spent countless hours drawing, both for himself and with his children – Adam and his sister, Lorca – purely as creative exploration. “I always just loved trying to find the shape of things,” Leonard Cohen has said. “I never thought of them as something to exhibit. I always thought of them as kind of notes – a kind of personal journalism.”
Leonard Cohen’s drawings have appeared publicly only four times before – at the opening of the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester, England, in the summer of 2007, in conjunction with the Luminato Festival in Toronto this past spring and then on the West coast at the Linda Lando gallery in Vancouver.
Feb. 11 to 28, 2010
2184 Oak Bay Ave. Victoria, BC Canada
This exhibition also appeared publicly at Claremont College, California from February,09 to May, 09. I went there to see it. It was awesome!
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