NEW YORK, NY.- Von Lintel Gallery presents Nature of the Pencil, a drawing installation by Marco Breuer, his fifth solo exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery. Throughout his nearly twenty-year career, Breuer has approached his work as a systematic investigation of the conditions of the photographic medium and its relationship to related media. For Nature of the Pencil—a play on William Henry Fox Talbot’s seminal book The Pencil of Nature—Breuer examines and explores the intersection of photography and drawing. A number of recent photogenic drawings by Breuer provide the starting point for this chalkboard installation. These photographic prints are interspersed with wall drawings, reworked images, and notes on photography and drawing, on mark-making in general, on perception, decay, and destruction. In Breuer’s work, line is the result of a physical interaction between materials and forces. Line and