Dimensions: image: 295 x 210 mm
Copyright: © Helmut Federle | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have Helmut Federle's "Untitled" print. It's a striking work, stark black shapes against a white background. What do you see in this piece? Curator: I see a negotiation between control and chaos. Federle, working post-war, perhaps grapples with how to represent trauma. The seeming randomness of the blotches can mirror the fragmentation of the self, where the social context is uprooted. Editor: Fragmentation of self, I see what you mean. Curator: The bold black suggests to me an urgency, a refusal to remain silent. It speaks to the tradition of using art as a means of voicing resistance and bearing witness. Does that resonate with you? Editor: It does. I hadn’t considered the act of resistance through abstraction. Curator: Exactly! And perhaps that is the point. It prompts us to reflect on how we make sense of the world amid disruption. Editor: I see that now. I will never look at abstract works the same way.
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Blue Sisters, Structures of Deviance is a portfolio of ten prints executed in blue ink on white paper. Five are photogravures depicting trees. The other five are soft ground etching and aquatint on paper; these images are abstract and have a smaller plate size than the photogravures. The prints were produced at Druckatelier Kurt Zein in Vienna, where the artist lives and works. They were published in an edition of thirty-five with ten artist’s and publisher’s proofs; Tate owns number eleven in the edition.
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