The International Print Biennial is on all over the North
East just now: every commercial gallery is showing something, so it is a big
event. We spent yesterday traipsing around some of those galleries to see what
was there.
There is a wide range of techniques and styles; at the Biscuit
Factory they have maybe 200 works, all no larger than 100x100mm for sale at
prices from £50 and upwards but nothing costing more than £150. There is
something terribly attractive about miniature art; the detail the ambition. We
would have bought something but couldn’t think where to put it. We have too
much stuff already.
I think my problem with print is I don’t appreciate the
work involved. Also, I don’t really understand why an artist would choose
silkscreen over lino-cut for example and what the limitations are. I don’t appreciate
technique in anything: not in art; not in music; not in sport, not in
literature either for that matter. You can knock off the greatest guitar solo
ever recorded with amazing finger technique but if it isn’t musical, it will
end up in my trash bin. So a lot of these works by famous Japanese lino cut practitioners
passed me by; my loss I guess.
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