Graphics-3
After four previous years of experimentation, continuing the search for expression via etching, lino-cut, monotype and such mediums.
dated 2020 until 2025
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The Mountaineer
2025etching by use of found iece of zinc
No justification
2025"If it´s just / it needs no justification / except when being / misunderstood" (carborundum print over collage old book)
Pulling off
2025
The stakes are so high / that despite a high risk / of failure, we decide for /
a pull off.
(lino-cut over fragments of book, size image 16x21 cm, unique)
Out of curiosity (puzzled)
2025
Words have started to battle with meaning; / positions move by whim /
and denial has become the new religion. // Now push the reset button.
All the others
2024linocut, edition no IV, image 25x17 cm
At another time
2024
"At another time / it could be worse / it might be better, /
but definitely, it is not now / a time that is boring and horrible together, /
pestered by dumbness and devolution"
(wood-relief print and collage)
Positions in red and black
2024Any color will do, if contrasting / but not competing. (woodcut, image 24x21 cm)
"Une traversée improbable"
2024
"If a sense of too many and great difficulties / rising by existing conditions / flushes your brain / then crossing may seem an unlikely act // For an easy traverse / change conditions or your perception / or dare crossing, whatever."
(Monoprint)
A room with an ensemble
2023The gouge did cut through layers of wood / leaving a heap of shavings and/ elements next to or on top of another. (woodcut)
The New Leader (2)
2024"After thorough selection / we present the new leader / able to fit to the liberal principles / as well as the ultraconservatists / because he/she/they / has no ethics whatsoever" (monoprint of discarded material, size image 25.5x32 cm)
This how I remember you, Alberto
2024monoprint, primitive, portrait
A proper arrangement
2024"With connections and texture / loose thoughts are given sense." (collage - monoprint, image 15x21 cm)
The screen
2024"A window to forget /the loss of perspective /and of memory, // of knowledge and of /ignorance born out /of naivity" (collage of monoprint fragments, size image 14x18.5 cm)
In case of any event
2024Small remnants of wood used for construction, transformed into basis for woodcut (image size about 19x12 cm), print on cotton-paper.
Twosome (soles)
2024two podological soles, carved and printed size image 24.5x19.5 cm)
Crossing the barriers
2023monoprint, 2 phases. image 16x23 cm
Worrying Warriors
2023Once acts of violence / start to worry warriors / they might be persuaded / to abandon arms. lino-cut over monoprint
Us (whereabouts)
2023The space defines our being (etching, image 25x19.5 cm)
The News Today
2023"The news today was messy, disturbing, unwanted." (monoprint, image size 26x37.5 cm)
inclined
2024inclined
The Threat of Life (Dad April 16, 1919 - October 11, 2023
2023thread of life
Tensions
2022etching-aquatint, size image 12.5x19.5, paper 20x27 cm
Moving landscape (the kite)
2023
"The earlier drawing / had to reflect the conditions /
of plate and erosion by time / and the memory of / some great artist..."
(etching by use of eroded plate of zinc)
dialogue
2023A dialogue without words / with breath withheld, even // the only sound produced / by the press used for printing (monoprint)
Another Challenge
2023reliefprint with lino-cut (ed. 1)
Red Elements and Bars
2023
If you want to bar a color / the best color is red, / since red is the best color / to be barred. // However, if you want a bar / to be colored / you may consider red, / but any other color will do.
(reliefprint of found object, 2022)
The bridge has collapsed
2022The bridge seen as the backbone / of life per se. Stone lithography (edition four prints) image 20x20 cm
Village in the mountains
2022"There must be such a village / in the mountains, since in my dreams / it is visualized repeatedly"
Ascent (again)
2022"I did it once / such steep ascent, / and now again, / the burden arising / from meagre joints" (etching, image 15x15.5 cm, edition of III)
Just talking (territorial)
2022monoprint on thin layered paper, image 14.5x21
Consultation
2022The moment people met one another / a meeting became a consultation. // Now people have become distracted by all means / of digital devices. // That explains... Etching, two plates. size paper 24 x 18 cm
In the beginning (condition)
2022"In the beginning one must create conditions" (etcing on found zinc object, image 12,5x19 cm)
Halt - War no more (May 8th, 1945-2022)
2022woodcut
"Mark the lines"
2022monoprint on old text, part of 'mailart' project title "Kloster / Cloister", exposition in Museum Schloss Zehdenick, Germany, Juni 2022
"Memory - the lines"
2022monoprint on old text, part of 'mailart' project title "Kloster / Cloister", exposition in Museum Schloss Zehdenick, Germany, June 2022
Louise (or, a spider is no octopus)
2020inspired by Louise Bourgeois, monoprint (image size 15x19, paper 22x31 cm)
The scientist
2021"The scientist counted brain cells / and connections, // then he measured the distance / between boulders / in the stream, as related to / the strength and speed / of the current passing, // until an aching toe / drew his attention to / a shoe too narrow / for his foot."
Current (episode)
2021monotype over journal photo, image 13x18.5 cm
Bombarded city
2022Who is it / that thinks he may bomb a city / to destruction? // Where Ninive was spared by God. (protest against Putin's war, monoprint)
Nuclecstasy
2022While and when seeking the core of senses / the nucleus of flashes / the pith of a posture or / the gold jar // and even more / the skeleton itself // It must to be realized / that the scratches on the surface / tell little about the content. monoprint
Archetype village
2021monoprint via oil-transfer
Thinking about earlier times
2021"Couds and sun, and earth: where I rest, there is / crumbly clay that harbours / the memory of a face, of / a jar in Hellas, / of a teacher at school." (lino-cut)
Monte Tramuten
2021Monte Tramuten is a mountain / my memory situates somewhere / in Corse, the Pyrenees, Dolomiti, the Alps" etching-aquatint, image 10x13 cm, ed # 3
Loose ends
2020"loose ends are not / what they stand for" (monoprint)
Walking away
2021"Walking away from a former state / towards the next, that soon / also will elapse and fade / each new state less in size / than the last that passed." (litography with ink and paint, image 15x18 cm)
Ascent
2021oil transfer drawing / monoprint, image 11x14 cm
Scribblings
2021"remnant of old zinc / scratches a nail with sharp point // the impression of a stay / once, somewhere, for later." cold needle graphics
Inquiry into the mind
2021monoprint-mixed media
Modisperes
2021
"Modisperes"
Movement - direction - speed - resistance in space
(lino-cut, size image 10.3x16 cm, ed = 4)
Island travels
2021"Sometimes the border runs in a circle / around the restrictions." monotype, image 17x13 cm
Part of our being
2021At the discovery of the denial / and the denial of the discovery / a crack did arise. // A crack in the façade, the control / a leak in the pressure line at the inner side. // The doctor laughed with some compassion: this was not covered by / the insurrance monoprint - ink transfer
"Beating the bush"
2020"People, yes I know / it is often better to evade a conflict / but I needed / brushing"
Entanglement
2021Not so much the tangles of / the outer world, have put / my thoughts in a clew, a maelstroom // but the absence of power / moving energy / in the right direction.
Complicit
2021collage of graphics
Pals
2021"Pals are there for another / equal and different / present or absent." (monotype, image 13x18 cm)
The general
2021"The general had two glasses / after arriving from Porto / and returned later by train."
Three steps
2020In three steps the goal was reached / at a time the world was asleep / unaware of suffering and death. // The sun making it’s daily round / the moon still hiding / newspapers that hadn’t arrived. // The TV having gone black / when the neighbours left / without the cat. monoprint. size image 12x16 cm
In the background
2021collage of two monoprints, private collection
Characters
2020Characters / are meant / to generate power (monoprint on cloth on paper)