XGen / maquette / EPC #18 / a new Print Club edition
I’m just uploading some new notes about my latest work - XGen - which I’ve been working on here, a little on and off, over the summer. After a little time off for good behaviour, it’s been good to get back on the drawing tools and start work on a new geometry, which I hope may lead on to more new ideas, and processes, for image generation later in the Autumn.
As Coronavirus continues to reshape the way I’m working here, and with my focus aimed more squarely at the internet, it’s been good to make a new edition of work that explores some of my current concerns and ideas. XGen is about the potential energy created in a pair of crossed lines, an X, and I hope, explores that embedded or kinetic energy as it expands from the centre of the frame. As I worked on with the piece, it also seemed to me that there is, perhaps, some suggestion of the XY chromosome issues that are sparking a huge amount of fascinating debate in our society recently. I hope there’s a little poetry in the work too.
I’m using a new graphic edge technique, which I think moves the work away from its core sculptural feel, and into a crisper more graphic, perhaps more illustrated vibe that I’m not entirely sure about, but am happy to explore. Previously my Klint pieces used a different process to create a slightly similar feel. Essentially it’s about using a coloured holding line to contain the forms, but allowing that line to shift both in scale and in hue, so that it doesn’t deaden the work.
I’m going to edition a larger version of the work, for gallery exhibition, but felt that this study would also make a good candidate for my Experimental Print Club, so this first iteration has been sent out to Club members this July.
As ever, the Print Club editions are limited by the number of members on the day of issue, so in this case, it’s an edition of 16, plus a couple of APs.
I’ll post a little more about the project as new variations are completed.
With best regards - Chuck
XGen / maquette / EPC #18
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Edition of 16, plus 4 APs
10 colour pigment print on Kodak metallic Endura
Printed in house, July 14th 2021
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Sheet size 42cm W x 48cm H
Image size 30cm W x 36cm H
About the Print Club
If you’d like to receive four exclusive new editions in the post each year, alongside personal news and views from the studio, and invitations to shows and fairs, please do consider becoming a member of my Experimental Print Club. You can join or leave the club at any time, with absolutely no obligation to stay any longer than you want to.
Four new works are sent out, somewhat sporadically, throughout the year, often in line with the changing seasons. Each piece is unique, exclusive, and only available on the day it’s editioned, the size of the edition being determined by the number of members on the day.
I hope the club presents a more personal and intriguing way to connect with the studio, by creating a platform for collecting engaging new works for your home. The club is hosted online here, and I send out fairly regular blog posts and emails about the work too. I’d like to think that it’s an interesting proposition!
Membership is priced at £30 per month inc. UK delivery, or £35 for an international address.
