Impress : print making expanded in contemporary art
The show began be
redefining what a print was and described it as now the exertion of pressure to
create an image and there were some fascinating examples. I loved Mona Hatoum’s
“+ and -” which was a tray of sand over which an arm with one serrated edge and
one flat one rotated. This meant that in turn half the sand was ridged and half
flat but this was constantly changing. I also liked Richard Long’s “A Line Made
by Walking” which was a photo of the ‘print’ his footsteps had made by
repeatedly walking across a field.
However my
favourite had to be Tim Mara’s “Cane Chair”. On one piece of paper was a
picture of a chair, a picture of how a cane seat was made, an imprint of a cane
chair seat and a photo of a bottom which had been sitting on the chair and the
imprint which had been left in said bottom!
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