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Prints by Wullimann
Prints by Wullimann, an exhibition of 41 black and white woodcut prints by Swiss printmaker Peter Wullimann, are on view from May 18-June 1.
Peter Wullimann, born in 1941, is currently the director of the Grenchen Museum of Art in Switzerland. Since 1965 he has exhibited his work in Switzerland, Austria, West Germany, Luxembourg and Japan. His work is in the collections of the leading Swiss museums, as well as the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.
Woodcut is a relief printmaking process in which an image is cut into a piece of wood, inked and printed. The areas of the block of wood used to produce the image are left in relief; the areas to remain unprinted are cut away. When several colors are used, a separate block is cut for each color. Successive printings of the blocks, carefully aligned one on top of another, result in the final color print.
Wullimann uses only black and white in the works represented here, but he has also created color prints using the complex, multiple-block technique. In this exhibit, each different shade of gray was produced by printing with a separate block. He has made use of the grain of the wood block, carefully choosing a variety of woods for their textural effect when printed. Large areas of black, white and gray are often juxtaposed with stark white knife-cut lines, produced both manually and mechanically, or the cloud-like, molulated shapes obtained by the electric cutter. Wullimann’s prints are all on Japanese paper that has qualities of texture and absorption, allowing the inks to produce a greater variety of tonalities than is possible with harder surfaced papers.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Swiss Embassy and Pro Helvetia.
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May 18 - June 01, 1982
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