10-color silkscreen printed, signed, and hand-numbered by the artist. (345 x 460 mm)
Unique specimen Printed on Fedrigoni Woodstock Cipria 285 g paper. In perfect condition with intact margins.
I've never made a secret of my fascination with everything chance can offer, even in the creative realm. 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's necessary to make test prints to determine the correct colors, proceeding by trial and error. Test prints are generally made on sheets that were themselves proof sheets from previous runs, therefore depicting other subjects (or at least a portion of them). These partial images are continually superimposed on new subjects over the course of the test prints, unknowingly 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 multiple 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, as they were not guided by rationality. The true 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 emerges tells us something about ourselves and lends itself to interpretation.” Elisa Talentino