Trama XXXIV
Tramas

Artist name

Alex Gama

Artist year born

1950

Artwork make date

1996

Artwork title translation

Pattern XXXIV
Patterns

Artwork material

wood engraving
Japanese paper

Artwork dimensions

height: 49cm
width: 49cm

Artwork type (categories)

Print

Accession method

Donated by Alex Gama 1999

Accession number

7:3-1999

Label text

Alex Gama incises wood with the delicacy - and the tools - of the metal engraver, subjecting the wood blocks to a formal, material and conceptual transformation. This print belongs to the series Tramas, which skilfully merge the intellectual selection of Constructivist signs with a unique sensibility for the natural material employed in the process: cedar wood. His technique marries the traditions implicit in the medium with a language born from the concerns of modern art, deploying rhythm, tonality and shadow as the sole narrative. Squares, triangles, angles and rays coexist to form a grid that relates to the natural grain of the block.
Gabriela Salgado

Last updated date

2008