Lou Jaworski, SUNDAY, 2020

2020

Medium

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

Dimensions

123 × 183 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156130

In his offset print SUNDAY on newsprint, Lou Jaworski reflects intensively on the mechanisms of perception, grid structures and the definition of the term “image”. In the newspaper printing method used in halftone raster, the impression of color tone values and gray levels of images is achieved through a specific arrangement of raster points. Jaworski uses this process to create a gradient from dark to light on the New York Times paper. In it, the distances between the small black dots to the center of the picture increase until the arrangement is reversed, and the white spaces become dots. 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 pressure points - which can suggest light and shadow - creates a hinted horizonal line, leading the viewer to habitually read the work as a landscape picture. Jaworski questions with SUNDAY 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.