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Magnificent 9th International Engraving Biennial in Cremona closes!
Instagram: @prismprint
– WE WELCOME MORE MASTERLY ARTISTS into Prism's international exchange project!
Having just had the pleasure of welcoming distinguished artists Sumi Perera and Norman McBeath into Prism's exhibiting programme we are now delighted to announce some more exciting artists have joined us.
Jurjen Ravenhorst from the Netherlands, and Haruko Cho from Tokyo - who is curator of Tokyo's B-gallery in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district - joined just before the Cremona exhibition. And as a result of experiencing Prism at Cremona several others accepted our invitation to join us in our mission to further the cause of compelling and serious art expressed through the medium of print!
Switzerland-based French artist Egide, Sachie Hirakawa from Japan, Silvana Martignoni from Italy, American-French artist Jim Monson, Herman Noordermeer from the Netherlands, Selvihan Kilic from Turkey, Mikael Kihlman from Sweden and Zhang Minjie from China are new members of Prism and we are very happy to welcome them!
Jurjen Ravenhorst has been a very active printmaker and teacher in the Netherlands for many years, and is principally interested in the art of stone lithography. He has exhibited all over the world.
With a perhaps characteristically 'European' sensibility towards graphic represnations and formalism he has recently taken to making diptychs where separate sheets of etching and lithographic prints are married in a single work. This highlights intrinsic differences in tactile surface qualities, but also raises stirrring questions about the meanings carried by the methodologies, compounded by the differing graphic languages which might seem to be implicit in the opposing techniques.
www.haagsekunstenaars.nl/cv/606/Jurjen++Ravenhorst
Haruko Cho exhibits very widely and has won numerous prizes, including at the Krakow Triennial. Her very physical works explore the possibilities inherent within a tightly constrained focus on reforming her 'B-cushions', which she makes and then twists and binds, and through printing onto rough Lokta Nepalese papers.The 'jittering' linear backgrounds introduce an air of ambiguity which propels the images into a provocative monumentality.
Haruko is also highly motivated regarding her efforts to encourage international artistic exchanges and uses her Tokyo B-gallery extensively for that purpose.
The noted Scottish artist Norman McBeath is best known for his remarkable photographs of the talented, famous or powerful, with fifty portraits at the National Portrait Galleries of London and Edinburgh.
But he is also a fine exponent of the regrettably now uncommon art of photogravure. We are delighted to be able to show his examples of this technique alongside the many different processes we elucidate in our exhibitions, and we are even more delighted that we are showing the expressive work of this important Scottish creative artist whose poetic sensitivity to people and places is both sophisticated and deeply moving.
We are delighted to announce that the Sri Lankan-born British artist Sumi Perera has accepted our invitation to exhibit her complex process-driven work with us. Again it is a great foil to work of our other associates, revealing and explicating the underlying ethos. Sumi had an early interest in architecture but elected to study medicine, becoming a doctor before capitulating to the pull of making creative work originally exploring the book form, and usually employing some form of experimental printmaking.
https://twitter.com/PereraSumi
ZHANG MINJIE
http://wwwzhangminjie.zxart.cn/
Tetsuya Noda - Diary April 9th,15 -Woodblock, mimeograph, silkscreen. 54 x 54cm - 2015
Stanley Jones – Zenobia – Lithograph 57 x 3 9.5/60.5 x 42.5cm Ed46/50 -1970
Nigel Oxley - Pt. 1. The Muhlberg Suite: Look At Me And Remember - Multiple process, 60 x 51 cms - 2016
Prism was part of the IXth Engraving Exhibition in the Santa Maria della Pietà in Cremona, Italy, September 24 - October 29, 2017!
Previous Sponsors of Prism Events to whom we are greatly indebted:
John Bullock Design architecture and interiors
Norman McBeath: Ibis, Edition of 30 Image 165mm x 165mm, paper 400mm x 300mm (Somerset velvet white 300gsm) Photogravure
Sumi Perera, Rebuilding the Unbuilt [Y Block] (i) (2014).Intaglio.
Our special thanks to the organisers Vladimiro Elvieri and Maria Chiara Toni (who are also members of Prism) the Cremona Biennale, also called L'Arte e il Torchio, the IXth Engraving Exhibition at Cremona in 2017 was a resounding success! Over 1,730 visitors viewed the exhibition and 400 students of schools and art academies took part in educational printmaking workshops within the gallery, taught by Vladimiro and Chiara.133 works were then donated to the Cremona Civic Collection of graphic art.
For Prism this was an extraordinary opportunity to present the full extent of our international artists alongside the range of other world artists chosen by the experienced organisers. And not only with those, but also alongside superb prints from the Paris archive of Mme. Frélaut (Lacourière-Frélaut studio) and from the wonderful Champetier Gallery of Cannes. We were fascinated to observe the Prism works, so advantageously hung and arranged, 'conversing' with such great print art from elsewhere and even with the great names from the past such as Tàpies, Picasso, Chagall, Clavé! It is was so rewarding to experience Prism artists being shown in this exemplary way! We also had the pleasure of meeting other luminaries of the Continental print world like Hector Saunier, and some have joined Prism. Our sincere thanks and congratulations to the Associazione Incisione Senza Confini on such a successful and impressive event!
The exhibition was:
IX INTERNATIONAL ENGRAVING EXHIBITION – CREMONA 2017 September 24th – October 29th, 2017
CREMONA, Centro culturale “Santa Maria della Pietà” Piazza Giovanni XXIII
EXHIBITION comprised:
MASTERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Picasso, Chagall, Miró, Hayter, Music, Clavé, Tàpies
A historical section that presents forty works by some of the greatest exponents of the modern art history, coming from important private collections of Cannes (Michelle Champetier Gallery) and Paris (Denise Frélaut, director of the famous Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut in Montmartre). www.mchampetier.com
THE SECRET GESTURE
Reserved to the most important Italian and foreign contemporary artists who are distinguished for the quality of their art graphics research. Forty works of medium and large format, in which the engraved sign becomes a communicative gesture.
PRISM 8 “Connections”
Seventy works created with various graphic techniques by 36 artists members of the Prism Print International of London, coming from seven countries: United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, Poland, Netherlands, China, South Korea. Itinerary show in Europe and Asia. www.prismprintinternational.com
EX-LIBRIS CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI;
A significant collection of ex-libris and small graphic of Italian and foreign artists, dedicated to the figure and works of the great composer and musician from Cremona, in the 450th anniversary of the birth (1567). Show in collaboration with AIE-Associazione Italiana Ex-libris and Liceo Musicale “Riccardo Malipiero” of Varese.
Info: Associazione INCISIONE SENZA CONFINI (no profit) Cod.Fisc. 93059680194 C.so Vacchelli 51, 26100 Cremona, Italy
Tel. 0372 30410 - 3402244963 e-mail info@elvieri-toni.com www.incisionesenzaconfini.it facebook/incisionesenzaconfini
Michelle Champetier Gallery: www.mchampetier.com
NEWS We are thrilled to welcome new members!
Egide, Sachie Hirakawa, Silvana Martignoni, Jim Monson, Herman Noordermeer, Selvihan Kilic, Mikael Kihlman, and Zhang Minjie join other new members Jurjen Ravenhorst, Haruko Cho, Norman McBeath and Sumi Perera - See further down this page for info!
PRISM will showcase alongside works from the Belfast Print Workshop, at the Belfast Oriel Gallery in November 2018, and with the Society of Scottish Artists at their Annual Exhibition in the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, December to January 2018-19!
PRISM will exhibit Polish and Italian approaches to intaglio/planographic lino and engraving on plastics in Tokyo's B-gallery April 2019
Jurjen Ravenhorst - Diptych III, lithography 2015, 50,7 x 46,3 cm, edition 12-
Haruko Cho - B-Cushion #14. Piezograph on hand-made paper
Vladimiro Elvieri and Maria Chiara Toni - Photo:Marta Di Donna
Photos: Vladimiro Elvieri, Nigel Oxley, Wendy Shirvani, John Read, Yolanda Eveleens, Ruud Streefkerk
Zhang Minjie - Woodcut 1993
Mikael Kihlman engraving
Jim Monson - 'Maternity' - reduction woodcut. 21/25. Japanese paper, 49 x 37.7 on 65 x 44 cm.
Herman Noordermeer - 'Z.T' - 2015 - Litho. 115 x 95 on 145 x 115 cm.
Selvihan Kilic - stencil and woodcut.
Egide - Au Secours! - burin engraving - 2005. 63 x 46 cm
Silvana Martignoni - 'The Four Elements' 2016. Mezzotint on copper plate. 49 x 44.3 on 80 x 60 cm.
Arianna Tagliabue - "Angel" - 2013 - drypoint, Dremel, roller, carborundum on PVC. 70 x 50 cm
Current List of Artists Exhibited by Prism
PAULINE AITKEN, SUSAN ALDWORTH
TREVOR BANTHORPE, MARCIN BIALAS
CLAUDIA DE GRANDI, DOLORES DE SADE
YOLANDA EVELEENS, SACHIE HIRAKAWA
YUUICHI KASHIMA, MASAHIRO KAWARA
MIKAEL KIHLMAN, SELVIHAN KILIC
SHIZUKO KIYOHARA, HIDEKI KONDO
TOMASZ M. KUKAWSKI, MASATAKA KUROYANAGI
SOPHIE LAYTON, SILVANA MARTIGNONI
NAO MASUDA, NORMAN MCBEATH
HERMAN NOORDERMEER, NIGEL OXLEY