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“Mechanischer Tanz”, Hans Ticha (DE)⎢HTHO36

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snappy when he is adjudicating the symbol of Western society of the DDR youth organization, the blue shirt, which had been replaced by the bare skin while the brother kisses became kisses from Ferrero. His paintings contain a wealth of historical references, which ranges from the great political scene to the individual citizen’s daily life during and after the regime.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.

“Linear Landscape #1”, Cynthia Back (US)⎜MI19/349/2

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.

 

“Japanese Maples on Darby Creek”, Cynthia Back (US)⎜MI19/349/3 SOLD

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.

“Forest Finds #1”, Cynthia Back (US) SOLD

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.

“Decoded”, Roberta Restaino (IT)⎜MI19/301/1,

Roberta Restaino is an italian artist. Her work can be found in several public permanent collections such as Centro de Arte Faro Cabo Mayor in Spain, SGC International Archives, MAPC Archives.

Restaino’s serigraphies represent abstract elements, composed of well-defined colours, which resemble biological structures. Intense tones of colour are created through the serigraphy printing technique. Patches of colours and patterns are superposed playfully, resulting in an overall union in the piece. This results in fascinating light-hearted pieces.

Her prints are made using the serigraphy, woodcut and dry-point technique. For the serigraphy technique, a screen, made of silk, polyester or nylon is used as a stencil over a wood or aluminum frame. Ink or paint is then forced through the open fabric, with a rubber blade, onto the paper. A different screen is used for each colour in the print, resulting in a final serigraph with great colour density, saturation, and texture. These various intense colours are seen in her works.

“How Far We Are?”, Roberta Restaino (IT)⎜MI19/301/2,

Roberta Restaino is an italian artist. Her work can be found in several public permanent collections such as Centro de Arte Faro Cabo Mayor in Spain, SGC International Archives, MAPC Archives.

Restaino’s serigraphies represent abstract elements, composed of well-defined colours, which resemble biological structures. Intense tones of colour are created through the serigraphy printing technique. Patches of colours and patterns are superposed playfully, resulting in an overall union in the piece. This results in fascinating light-hearted pieces.

Her prints are made using the serigraphy, woodcut and dry-point technique. For the serigraphy technique, a screen, made of silk, polyester or nylon is used as a stencil over a wood or aluminum frame. Ink or paint is then forced through the open fabric, with a rubber blade, onto the paper. A different screen is used for each colour in the print, resulting in a final serigraph with great colour density, saturation, and texture. These various intense colours are seen in her works.

“Organism”, Roberta Restaino (IT)⎜MI19/301/3,

Roberta Restaino is an italian artist. Her work can be found in several public permanent collections such as Centro de Arte Faro Cabo Mayor in Spain, SGC International Archives, MAPC Archives.

Restaino’s serigraphies represent abstract elements, composed of well-defined colours, which resemble biological structures. Intense tones of colour are created through the serigraphy printing technique. Patches of colours and patterns are superposed playfully, resulting in an overall union in the piece. This results in fascinating light-hearted pieces.

Her prints are made using the serigraphy, woodcut and dry-point technique. For the serigraphy technique, a screen, made of silk, polyester or nylon is used as a stencil over a wood or aluminum frame. Ink or paint is then forced through the open fabric, with a rubber blade, onto the paper. A different screen is used for each colour in the print, resulting in a final serigraph with great colour density, saturation, and texture. These various intense colours are seen in her works.