26 June – 6 July 2012
Institute of Art and Visual Culture
University of Oldenburg
Opening, Tuesday, 26 June, 6.00 pm at the Lecture Theatre Centre Thea Buchholz
Linda Janas
Andrea Janssen
Undine van Elsberg
Katharina Wewer Artistic Director Katia Liebmann
Serial painting is similar in character to printmaking, however, the key characteristic of printmaking – its reproducibility – does not apply here. This also applies to the monotype; here, however, it is a form of artistic printmaking. In both cases, each sheet is unique. In monotype, the picture surface is not worked on directly but indirectly; this technique therefore forms a bridge between painting, drawing and printmaking – printing whilst painting, painting whilst printing. The American painter Elizabeth Peyton, who has transformed monotype – an art form with its roots in the late 19th century – into a form relevant to the 21st century, says: “When I go into the print studio, I bear in mind that my work can be reproduced, so it must be something worth reproducing. But it also works the other way round. Printmaking also has a certain lightness to it, which can lead me to produce a print of something I wouldn’t paint – as if the print had satisfied that need.”
Four students from the 2011/12 winter semester worked on metal plates using a painterly, serial technique and then printed them on the copperplate press – the result was a series of monotypes – which will be on display from Tuesday in the Lecture Theatre Centre.