John Stezaker - Silkscreen - Ridinghouse 2010
John Stezaker is an artist for whom working in series has always come naturally. The best of these, such as The Film Portraits, The Film Stills and The Masks, are the result of several decades spent working through the formal possibilities and semantic implications involved in applying a specific, limited set of transformative procedures to a generic and comparably delimited corpus of found imagery. All of the series just mentioned are small-scale collages, the medium with which Stezaker has to date been most intimately associated. It is significant that the labels provided for these series derive from their pictorial content rather than the mechanics of their facture. In contrast, the works referred to collectively as The Screenprints appear not to constitute a series per se, but rather a heterogeneous succession of overlapping series, executed in the same medium between 1977 and 1994. While the medium in question, mid- to large-scale silkscreen printing on fabric, is one which even then was obsolescent and today is mostly confined to certain backwaters of the clothing industry, it was also a favoured medium of the artist who supplied these works with their most formidable precedent, Andy Warhol.
Published in 2010 on the occasion of the exhibition at Capitain Petzel, Berlin.
142p - EN - 23x28.5cm - hardcover - good condition
Published in 2010 on the occasion of the exhibition at Capitain Petzel, Berlin.
142p - EN - 23x28.5cm - hardcover - good condition