Christopher Clack explores digital print through the eyes of tradition. His work looks for continuities between digital processes and older practices in painting and printmaking, while recognising the fractures digital technology introduces.
These concerns are brought into contact with an esoteric range of sources, including religious imagery, obscure histories, found photographs and idiosyncratic personal associations. The digital process becomes a way of testing how such images can be altered, combined and reactivated. He is a digital printer by trade 'producing not just his own prints but prints for other artist as well
All submitted images are either photos or scans of the actual prints not just the digital file.
The submitted prints reflect Clack’s long-standing fascination with Rembrandt’s dry-point series The Three Crosses. Rembrandt treated the plate — the matrix — as fluid and changeable, with each state offering shifts in image, atmosphere and meaning. The significance lies not only in producing an edition, but in the evolution of the image itself.
Clack pursues a related approach by reworking a digital file as a contemporary matrix. Each stage can become a new edition, or possibility for meaning.
Christopher Clack explores digital print through the eyes of tradition. His work looks for continuities between digital processes and older practices in painting and printmaking, while recognising the fractures digital technology introduces.
These concerns are brought into contact with an esoteric range of sources, including religious imagery, obscure histories, found photographs and idiosyncratic personal associations. The digital process becomes a way of testing how such images can be altered, combined and reactivated. He is a digital printer by trade 'producing not just his own prints but prints for other artist as well
All submitted images are either photos or scans of the actual prints not just the digital file.
The submitted prints reflect Clack’s long-standing fascination with Rembrandt’s dry-point series The Three Crosses. Rembrandt treated the plate — the matrix — as fluid and changeable, with each state offering shifts in image, atmosphere and meaning. The significance lies not only in producing an edition, but in the evolution of the image itself.
Clack pursues a related approach by reworking a digital file as a contemporary matrix. Each stage can become a new edition, or possibility for meaning.
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