UNTITLED

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UNTITLED 1987

Adrian Wiszniewski (1958 – )

Details

Dimension
26.5 X 21 CM
Media
LINOCUT
Accession number
P5586/16

Summary

In 1987 Charles Booth-Clibborn invited Wiszniewski to work on a solo project, the original idea had been to produce a work based on the life of Tristram Tzara and the other Surrealists poets but this was abandoned. Wiszniewski opted to produce a wordless pictorial narrative that told a tale of man finding a strange object in a box and setting out to discover its purpose. He drew directly onto the lino blocks with felt tip pen, completing all the works in a single day. The work is dedicated to his son Max who was born in 1987. The published edition has no text but the artist inscribed one copy with a short narrative and titled the work Lamp-Light and gave it to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (www.natgalscot.ac.uk).

The works were published in 1988 by Charles Booth-Clibborn under his imprint The Paragon Press and printed by Vivien Hendry in an edition of 100.

Further reading:
Contemporary Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern and The Paragon Press, 1995, texts by Jeremy Lewison, Duncan Macmillan and Patrick Elliott