Apoteose
Artist name
Artist year born
1935
Artwork make date
1993
Artwork title translation
Apotheosis
Artwork material
screen print
paper
paper
Artwork dimensions
height: 102cm
width: 137cm
width: 137cm
Artwork type (categories)
Print
Accession method
Donated by Maria Bonomi 1995
Accession number
77-1995
Label text
This work, one of a series of prints entitled Apoteose (Apotheosis), is characteristic of Bonomi's approach to woodcut, the medium with which she has held a lifelong engagement. Bonomi breaks down the marks created on the wooden printing block by the gesture of cutting into a taxonomy of lines and textures; these are then reconfigured into compositions such as this one.
This work has been executed using screen-print, a process that allows the addition of layers and lines of colour. While becoming suggestively figurative, the final image retains evidence of its formative wood-cutting process. Here the black lines are wing-like, while the colours used at the centre transform chaotic cuts into a tangled, textured, straw-like ball of lines.
Isobel Whitelegg
This work has been executed using screen-print, a process that allows the addition of layers and lines of colour. While becoming suggestively figurative, the final image retains evidence of its formative wood-cutting process. Here the black lines are wing-like, while the colours used at the centre transform chaotic cuts into a tangled, textured, straw-like ball of lines.
Isobel Whitelegg
Last updated date
2008