Printings
Light and Shadow
Light and Shadow Black and White
Light and Shadow
Junichiro Tanizaki, in the work “In Praise of the Shadow”, distinguishes the Eastern culture from the Western one, explaining the oriental dazzle of the shadow (present in architecture, literature ...) while western culture is seduced by the light. Inspired by the book I propose a comparison between opposing cultures, Eastern and Western, using, respectively, phenomenas of light and shadow to describe them. The search for the phenomenas of light and shadow are accompanied by an interest in making contemporary the sacredness of the art produced until the sixteenth century. I hop to offer the present the enchanted look that characterized the artistic production of the time. For its execution, painting was readapted in a different way from the traditional one, using printing as a mean of reproduction of images. By using a medium that allows some reproducibility on a set of images coming from a very specific period of art history, it was possible to reprint it in different ways, showing how urgent its message is. The images were printed on fabric for their lightness and etheric characteristics.
First Day
First Day
In order to continue the “Light and Shadow” project, new pritings were made based on the same theme but starting from new technological possibilities. An investigation was made into the potential of glass as a printing matrix. Integrating a research team within the scope of IJUP ‘13 was carried out a technological research from new matrices (glass). The glass has undergone processes of handblasting and of carborundum colography associated with different ways of inking on paper and fabric. The use of the fabric required, necessarily, a research on different means of inking. I present two printings outside the light box and two inside the light box.