Did anyone else read the brilliant @gq article about “The Great Chinese Art Heist”? I wrote a fun news recap of in the form of a mystery novel break down. Link in bio. (Image courtesy of Bartholomew Cooke)
"Since 1968" / reduction linocut in 7 colors / 15" x 32" / 2018
Dave Lefner's amazing print
Collector's 101: Reduction linocut technique
Picasso is credited with really innovating and popularizing the reduction process through the series of prints he did in the 50s.
Linocut is short for linoleum block printing. .
Linoleum, also called Lino, is a flooring surface invented in 1860 by Englishman Frederick Walton as a deck covering for battleships. Walton named "linoleum" after one of its key ingredients - linseed (flax) oil - using the Latin words "linum" (flax) and "oleum" (oil). .
Reduction method is a printmaking technique when a multicolored print is made using only a single block (in this case, a block of linoleum), which is cut, inked, and applied to paper under pressure. These 3-step process is repeated for each color that you see in the final image. With each subsequent cutting (reduction of the linoleum block), the actual block is destroyed and this same image can never be reprinted agian. Usually, reductions are printed from light to dark colors.
The main advantage of reduction method is perfect registration.
Registration is is the method of correlating overlapping colors on one single image. Simply put, it is what you do to figure out how the block fits onto the paper so that, throughout the whole printing process, it is always precisely on the same spot.
Who else is a fan? of #UgoRondinone 🙋♀️ 🌈 “Clouds + Mountains + Waterfalls” (2015)
Hands down one of the best shows I’ve seen at @sadiecoleshq in London. “Ugo Rondinone (b. Brunnen, Switzerland) lives and works in New York and studied at Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (1986-90). As well as several distinct groups of paintings (landscapes, mandalas, horizons, windows, stars and brick walls), and immersive installations (featuring clowns, multi-coloured windows, and monochrome-painted walls), Rondinone makes sculptures in various materials (including an ongoing series titled still.life, and a number of large-scale masks), monumental landscape drawings, intimate still life drawings, and text-based works. His works are united by a poetic quality and an enduring preoccupation with universal themes such as time, cosmic cycles, or the primordial opposition of day and night.”
SUMMER EDITION We are not really closed!Find out more about Martha Rosler’s solo, duo and group shows around the world:
* Solo and duo shows
Martha Rosler & Hito Steyerl. War Games, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, May 5 – December 2, 2018
Martha Rosler: Irrespective, Jewish Museum, New York, November 2, 2018 – March 3, 2019
* Group shows
Generali Foundation: 30 years, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, April 28 – October 7, 2018
WOMAN The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s. Works from the Sammlung Verbund Collection, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, June 15 – October 14, 2018
MoMA at NGV, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, June 9 – October 7, 2018
An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, August 18, 2017 – August 27, 2018
Constructing Identity in America (1766-2017), Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, September 1, 2018 – January 5, 2020
Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowships, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, September 14 – October 19, 2018
Imagine 68—Spectacle of Revolution, Swiss National Museum, Zurich, September 14, 2018 – January 20, 2019
Have We Met? Dialogues on Memory and Desire, Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan, September 21 – November 18, 2018
Who was 1968? A decade of eruptions, departures, and redefinitions in the steel city Linz, Lentos Museum, Linz, September 28, 2018 – January 13, 2019
Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1944-2018, LUMA Arles, Arles, October 12, 2018 – January 6, 2019
OCCUPY MANA: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy (Year 1), Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, October 15, 2017 – December 15, 2018
Image: Martha Rosler, Off the Shelf: Utopian Science Fiction, 2008