El Taller aGrabado: septiembre 2019

A GROUP EXHIBITION by Printmaking artist

DEPTFORD does ART LONDON

GROUP STATEMENT:

This exhibition presents a heterogeneous sample of contemporary printmaking practice by a group of artist brought together by their shared dedication to the medium. The works showcased have been developed in the same studio, a common space that has encouraged the exchange of ideas and awareness of each other’s practice, enriching individual approaches. These circumstances of making side-by-side underline the dialogue and diversity across our work, our particular uses of the languages of print com-prising a ‘syntax of the print’, like a collection of voices speaking in the same tongue.

Our professional involvement in the world of contemporary editions and our experience with the vast array of printmaking techniques has enabled us to develop individual visual discourses that explore the nature of print in the digital age. In the face of digital reproduction, we choose to put printmaking at the centre of our practice, engaging with traditional methods as well as exploring what new technologies can bring to the field, such as photosensitive materials and the photographic image.

The proliferation and bombardment of the instantaneous digital image today stands in stark contrast with the textile qualities, the craftsmanship and the physical materiality of the original print. As artist printmakers we share a passion for technical experimentation, exploring the boundaries of printmaking and the possibilities that the multiple work on paper has to offer.

This exhibition aims to reflect on the printed matter in its own right, expanding and combining the traditional with new technologies. The figurative and the abstract; it showcases a broad range of techniques including woodblock, lithography, etching, screen-printing, mono-print and photopolymer.

The title for this show has been taken from Jan Verwoert’s Exhaustion and Exuberance: Ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform, and emphasises the doubling of our lives as artist and printers. We simultaneously embody the intensive labour involved in the production of the multiple artwork and the sheer enjoyment of making for ourselves.