Lou Jaworski, JUNE, 2020

2020

Medium

Ink on newspaper, mounted on Aludibond, framed behind museum glass (offset printing in halftone screen)

Dimensions

73 × 103 cm

Edition

Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-155826

In his offset print JUNE on newsprint, Lou Jaworski reflects intensively on the mechanisms of perception, grid structures and the definition of the term “image”. The artist uses the common newspaper printing process on halftone screen to create a gradient that changes from dark to light on the salmon-colored paper of the Financial Times. The work consists of solid black lines, the strength of which decreases continuously towards the lower edge of the picture. In the upper area, the black color dominates, while the white space emerges below. This creates a moirée effect, an optical interference in which two grids overlap and the image begins to flicker. Upon closer inspection, this structure appears abstract and synthetic, while from a distance a uniform overall picture emerges. The course of the lines - which can suggest light and shadow - creates a hinted horizontal line, leading the viewer to habitually read the work as a landscape picture. Jaworski questions with JUNE the classic concept of the picture by making the technical requirements of the picture into its actual content, thus quoting the genre of the landscape picture in an abstract way.