Last Day of Winter / First Wood / Near that Hill – exhibited during Hungerwinter/Romantique as part of #48HNK 2022

These are 4 large sized artworks (almost A0) and are all hand made prints/transfers made from digital files. The technique is similar to what is done with photocopies or laser prints with lithography but not the same.

My theme was Hungerwinter / Romantique – here is more info on the story behind the works and how it fitted in the main theme for #48HNK2022.

I was very satisfied with the result and the reactions of the public. For now this is the way I will print for some time to come. I will, however, try to find other ways to make handcrafted prints based on digital files. Maybe it is time for a manifesto.

Last Day of Winter

Materials: paint, black and white print, paint, 3mm MDF board with Fiber composite material ornament
Printing Technique: Transfer print / Digital Printmaking
Dimensions: 2 boards of 87x145cm

First Wood

Materials: paint, laser print paint, 3mm MDF board
Printing Technique: Transfer print / Digital Printmaking
Dimensions: 74x120cm

Near that Hill

Materials: paint, laser print paint, 3mm MDF board
Printing Technique: Transfer print / Digital Printmaking
Dimensions: 74x120cm

What I made for the ‘Lotto BrandenBurg Fotografie Preis 2022’

Materials: paint, laser prints (color / B&W), MDF
Printing Technique: Transfer print / Digital Printmaking
Dimensions: up to 33x45cm

Application text:

The theme that unites all my works is time. I use my own digital photos to create images that are usually part of larger artworks. What you see here are just the prints, made the way I am now doing more and more: transfer printing on painted surfaces and then disguise them as artifacts weathered by time. For me the printing process I use now with digital images, is as important as creating a print from a negative like I used to do in a darkroom.

The works I create that way are fake, they are forgeries of artworks that have never existed. Or maybe they will, one day, in the future.

To the rest of the text I send with the images…

New way to print … on painted surfaces

I have been experimenting with a new way to print and it enables me to print on painted surfaces in both black and white – like I have don here – and in color.

This means for me that I am more and more mixing digital and analog – where analog has become more important to me. I like that I can finally print on rough surfaces, on surfaces that I painted before. I can print on surfaces that are painted in gold, that are shiny.

Materials: Fiber composite material, print, paint, black and white print
Printing Technique: Transfer print / Digital Printmaking
Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm