How long is now (for Masereel) - Matt Magee
’How long is now’ is a response and meditation on the gouges tooled into a woodcut by Belgian graphic artist Frans Masereel (1889-1972). Methodically executed, the cuts the artist made into the substrate become a gestural visual language unto themselves and also markers and indications of time. I found the catalogue of Masereel’s work in Jake Ingram’s studio library and being unfamiliar with the artist began to explore and appreciate the intensity of the surfaces. Political and architectural subjects resonate and emerge forcefully from the woodblock with Masereel’s concentrated mark making efforts. Locating a specific section of a woodcut, then isolating and replicating the cuts as Masereel made them forms the basis of the lithograph ‘How long is now’.
’How long is now’ is a response and meditation on the gouges tooled into a woodcut by Belgian graphic artist Frans Masereel (1889-1972). Methodically executed, the cuts the artist made into the substrate become a gestural visual language unto themselves and also markers and indications of time. I found the catalogue of Masereel’s work in Jake Ingram’s studio library and being unfamiliar with the artist began to explore and appreciate the intensity of the surfaces. Political and architectural subjects resonate and emerge forcefully from the woodblock with Masereel’s concentrated mark making efforts. Locating a specific section of a woodcut, then isolating and replicating the cuts as Masereel made them forms the basis of the lithograph ‘How long is now’.
’How long is now’ is a response and meditation on the gouges tooled into a woodcut by Belgian graphic artist Frans Masereel (1889-1972). Methodically executed, the cuts the artist made into the substrate become a gestural visual language unto themselves and also markers and indications of time. I found the catalogue of Masereel’s work in Jake Ingram’s studio library and being unfamiliar with the artist began to explore and appreciate the intensity of the surfaces. Political and architectural subjects resonate and emerge forcefully from the woodblock with Masereel’s concentrated mark making efforts. Locating a specific section of a woodcut, then isolating and replicating the cuts as Masereel made them forms the basis of the lithograph ‘How long is now’.
Matt Magee
How long is now (for Masereel)
Single-color lithograph
Paper Size: 18” x 22”
Paper Type: antique white Somerset velvet
Edition of 10