Georg Baselitz, Monumental Prints. Rolf Iseli, Monumental Prints
Georg Baselitz, monumental prints. Rolf Iseli, monumental prints Date 1983 Publisher The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition URL www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1830 The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history— from our founding in 1929 to the present—is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists. MoMA © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art ROLFISELI MONUMENTALPRINTS Thedrypoints executed by RolfIseli since 1975 are big,confron an "original" and that this perceiveddistance from the printed tational,and iconic. Measuring for the mostpart 60 x 30inches, sheetallows him a degreeof objectivityconducive to unself- theseprints are introspectiveand yet reflectiveof the artist's consciousexperimentation. Technically, direct contact is be personalexperiences in the countrysideof St. Romain,France. tweenartist and copper, not artist and paper, so whatwe actually Printedin small numbersof progressivestates rather than seeis a secondhandregistration of an earlieraction. There is standardeditions, these monumentalworks documentIseli's not only a time lag, but also an intermediaryagent—factors searchfor the artisticmanner most expressive of his subject. that exert their own force independentof the artist's touch. Iseli was born in Bern,Switzerland, in 1934.Initially a suc Paradoxically,the urgencywith whichIseli incised the copper is cessfultachiste painter in the 1950s,in 1966he renounced paint an actionthat the papermerely records, not receives.As Iseli ing on canvasfor drawing on paper,which could be "torn, himselfso poeticallyput it: "c'estla cuivrequi chante,"it is the pasted,shredded, thrown out and replaced."In 1961,attracted copperthat sings. to what he experiencedas the freedomand openness of French Poetryaside, the strugglebetween artist andmatrix is some culture,he had purchasedland in St.
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