DULLES (CAPITAL)
UNTITLED 2001
Sarah Morris (1967 – )
Details
- Dimension
- 73.7 X 73.7 CM
- Media
- SCREENPRINT
- Accession number
- P7428
Summary
Sarah Morris takes urban architecture as her starting point. Her work is based on graphically reduced details of building facades as structural all-over linear grids, and is informed by an interest in signs and the de-coding of the built environment. The set of nine screenprints can either shown together or in individual groups of three or four. The portfolio was proofed and editioned at Coriander Studios in London, and published in an edition of 35.
Glossary
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Edition
All copies of a book, print, portfolio, sculpture, etc., issued or produced at one time or from a single set of type. Printed works can be made in an edition of between one and many thousands of copies. With most printing techniques the plate or screen will become worn if very many prints are made, so to maintain quality (and exclusivity) editions of original prints are usually kept below one hundred copies and normally average between thirty and fifty copies. Prints made up of several different plates can be extremely complicated and time-consuming to edition, so in these cases editions are kept low for practical reasons. Sculptural editions are a set of cast sculptures taken from the same mould or master. These editions are usually much lower, consisting of no more than six casts. Though each cast in an edition might have a lower value than a unique piece, it may be a more effective way of offsetting costs of an expensive process such as bronze casting.
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Portfolio
A set of pictures (as drawings, photographs or prints) either bound in book form or loose in a folder. These can be by the same artist or individual works by a selection of artists. The term also refers to the folder which holds the set.