Cynthia Back’s classic woodcuts centre around the theme of nature. She creates an experience where the viewer may feel that they are walking through a landscape. Her focus on nature reflects her deep passion and admiration for it. With her pieces, through slight abstraction and design, she pictures wildlife in its different auras, through seasons and changes in weather. With this exploration, she touches upon important subjects; such as human’s impact on nature and climate change.
Printmaking enables Back to contrast shapes and colors through various processes. In each of her prints, she uses “10 to 25 colors, in opaque and transparent form”, leading the print to acquire “a physicality of layers” (Back, 2019). When printing, she only uses one single print block. This means she carves only one block, carving over images that have already been printed, and uses it for many layers and colors. This is called a reduction print. This results in the interesting color layering observed in the works.
Title: “Key Mangroves #5”
Artist: Cynthia Back
Technique: Reduction woodcut
Image size: 28 x 35.5 cm
Paper size: 39 x 45.5 cm
Year: 2019
Edition: 5/9
Price: sold
Title: Feathered Friend
Artist: Nicholas Wilson (US)
Technique: Woodcut
Size: 15×20 cm
Year: 2019
Price: sold
Nicholas Wilson (US)
Nana Kozuma (JP)
The Japanese artist Nana Kozuma has developed an utterly personal style to create her artworks. She wraps a colorful cloth on small wooden boxes, creating little caskets halfway between a sculpture and a miniature tapestry. Her series “Forest of utopy” sees various kinds of shapes, sewn in black, develop all over the surface of the boxes, overlapping patches of bright colors that resemble soft clouds or warm sheets of water. Together they build up wondrous and minuscule universes to be examined carefully by the viewer.
Nana Kozuma (JP)
The Japanese artist Nana Kozuma has developed an utterly personal style to create her artworks. She wraps a colorful cloth on small wooden boxes, creating little caskets halfway between a sculpture and a miniature tapestry. Her series “Forest of utopy” sees various kinds of shapes, sewn in black, develop all over the surface of the boxes, overlapping patches of bright colors that resemble soft clouds or warm sheets of water. Together they build up wondrous and minuscule universes to be examined carefully by the viewer.
Nana Kozuma (JP)
The Japanese artist Nana Kozuma has developed an utterly personal style to create her artworks. She wraps a colorful cloth on small wooden boxes, creating little caskets halfway between a sculpture and a miniature tapestry. Her series “Forest of utopy” sees various kinds of shapes, sewn in black, develop all over the surface of the boxes, overlapping patches of bright colors that resemble soft clouds or warm sheets of water. Together they build up wondrous and minuscule universes to be examined carefully by the viewer.
About the art:
The ironic comments in the artworks to the DDR’s regime self-image act as qualified complements to gain insight into German history and present, seen through Hans Ticha’s skeptical and critical eyes. German Hans Ticha delivers with his oil paintings a first hand narrative of how it was to live in a divided Germany during the struggle of ideologies. The artist lived until the fall of the Wall in East Germany and moved immediately thereafter to West Germany.
Known for his amazing graphic works and more than 60 book illustrations, Ticha’s social criticism becomes no less snappy when he is adjudicating the symbol of Western society of the DDR youth organization, the blue shirt, which had been replaced by the bare skin while the brother kisses became kisses from Ferrero. His paintings contain a wealth of historical references, which ranges from the great political scene to the individual citizen’s daily life during and after the regime.
About the artist
Hans Ticha is one of the most important contemporary german graphic artist and illustrator who have experienced and described the last 50 years of Germany’s daily life and history through his artworks. The human is the central figure in Ticha’s works often with grotesquely enlarged hands and small faceless heads.
Artist: Attri Chetan (IN)
Title: The Tired Worker
Year: 2019
Material/Technique: Woodcut
Edition: 1/7
Paper size: 77 x 108 cm
Artist: Attri Chetan (IN)
Title: Outside Artist’s Room
Year: 2019
Material/Technique: Woodcut
Edition: 1/7
Paper size: 77 x 108 cm
