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Bäume 4 (Trees 4)
Ruediger Ganslandt · 3 works in this exhibition
- MediumIntaglio print on paper
- Image size20 x 15 cm - framed 43 x 31 cm
- Edition1 of 25
- Year2025
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About the artist
In an age when images can be created with a single click on a mobile and accessed anywhere in the world with another click, printmaking with its slow, artisanal process takes on a significance beyond its historical function as a means of reproduction. For me, the process of etching and printing is at least as important as the motif, and this process should leave a distinct mark on the picture. This means deciding against printing techniques that are close to pictorialist photography and opting instead to grapple with copper, acids, lyes and a challenging dry film that significantly limits grey scale and resolution. For me, my role as an artist lies in isolating a motif in the frame of a photo, in further reducing it towards the meaning that made me choose it, and then in controlling a process that (hopefully) makes this meaning visible in an intaglio print. My inspiration comes primarily from the coastal landscape in which I live or the places I travel to.
Born in 1955. I graduated in art at RWTH Aachen University (Germany). Alongside the compulsory specialisation in sculpture, my personal focus was on etching and photography. Even whilst I was a student, I had the opportunity to contribute to a number ofinterdisciplinary books on modern art history. Keyboard and screen gradually pushed printing press and camera further into the background, and writing about an ever-wider range of topics became my profession for many years. However, I have now picked up where I left off during my student days and am working on developing my own visual language for photo etchings.
About the artwork
Photo etching on copper. Dry negative-film, double exposed with a stochastic aquatint screen and a positive slide. Etched with Iron III chloride. Printed on my ABIG 17030 press with Akua intaglio ink carbon black on Hahnemühle paper 350 g/m2, soft surface, natural white One of the small trees in my garden. In summer, the corkscrew hazel is just a green mess of leaves, from autumn on it reveals all its intricately tangled branches and later, as a sign of early spring, the first allergy-inducing catkins.