4-color silkscreen printed, signed and numbered by hand by the artist. (mm.535x372)
Single copy on paper Favini Crush Grape paper 350 gr. Perfect preservation with pristine margins.
“I have never made a secret of my great fascination for everything that chance can offer, even in the creative field. Chance often knows more than we do, benefiting from not having all our worries, fears, performance anxiety and self-censorship. When I make a silkscreen print run, it is necessary to make test prints, to determine the correct colors, proceeding by trial and error. The test prints are generally made on sheets that in turn were test sheets of previous runs, therefore depicting other subjects (or at least a part of them). These partial images are superimposed over new subjects during the test prints, unconsciously creating new compositions. Their escape from human control often gives us intriguing images, of a strength that intention cannot always achieve. Many of us as children will have taken part in the game of the “exquisite corpse”, a poetic compositional technique invented by André Breton and the surrealist collective in 1925. The game usually involved several participants, who added a drawing to a portion of folded paper, without seeing what the others had already drawn; this resulted in strange and unexpected associations, since they were not guided by rationality. The real interest in exquisite cadavers lies in the fact that these bizarre images, eluding rationality, somehow speak to us. In some respects I see analogies with the I Ching or the Tarot, where the randomness of what comes out tells us something about us and lends itself to interpretation.” Elisa Talentino