Dimensions: image: 416 x 417 mm
Copyright: © Ian Tyson | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Ian Tyson's 'Untitled' piece, located in the Tate Collections. The dimensions are 416 x 417 mm. It's quite striking with the grid of colorful squares against the black background. What's your perspective on this work? Curator: I'm drawn to the production process. This piece invites us to consider the labour involved, the materiality of the inks used, and how those choices create a dialogue between artistic intent and the means of production. How do the materials themselves inform your understanding? Editor: That's interesting; I hadn't really considered the ink itself. Seeing it as a product of labor changes how I view it. Thanks! Curator: Indeed! By focusing on the "how" and "what" it’s made of, we see the art in a fresh light.
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Untitled 1975 is a screenprint by the British artist Ian Tyson. Sixteen small squares in grey, orange, red and blue are arranged in four rows and four columns, with intervals between them that are approximately the height and width of the squares themselves. These shapes appear against a square black background which itself sits within a dark grey border. Although the arrangement of the shapes and their outlines are geometrically precise, the colours in each row and column do not follow a regular pattern. However, the placing of squares in the complementary colours of orange and blue next to one other and their contrast to the darker colours and black background mean that the composition appears to pulse with a rhythmic energy. The screenprint is mounted on thick white card and its right margin bears the artist’s name and the edition number, which is nine in an edition of thirty artist’s proofs.
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