26 June - 06 July 2012
Institute of Art and Visual Culture
University of Oldenburg
Opening, Tuesday, 26 June, 18.00 in the Lecture Centre Thea Buchholz
Linda Janas
Andrea Janssen
Undine van Elsberg
Katharina Wewer Artistic Director Katia Liebmann
Serial painting is related to printmaking in its characteristics, but the main characteristic of printmaking, its reproducibility, does not apply here. This also applies to the monotype - here, however, we are dealing with artistic printmaking. In both cases, each sheet is unique. In monotype, the picture surface is not worked directly but indirectly, so this technique is a combination of painting, drawing and graphics - printmaking painting, painterly printing. The American painter Elizabeth Peyton, who transported the monotype - an art form rooted in the late 19th century - into a form relevant to the 21st century, says: "When I go into the print studio, I think about the fact that my work can be reproduced, so it has to be something worth reproducing. But it also works the other way round. Printing also has an ease to it, which can lead to me making a print of someone I wouldn't paint - as if the print has satisfied the need."
AM 4 students from the 2011/12 winter semester worked on metal plates in a painterly-serial manner and then printed them on the copper printing press - resulting in series, monotypes - which will be exhibited in the lecture theatre centre from Tuesday.