Market Art Fair 2024
BORCH Editions’ Market Art Fair 2024 presentation showcases the diverse ways in which contemporary artists explore the possibilities of different printmaking techniques from the point of view of their respective practice. Frida Orupabo translates digital collages into photogravures; Andreas Eriksson, Wardell Milan, and Jockum Nordström each explore the possibilities of different etching techniques, reaching surprisingly diverse results. Tal R’s first exploration of monotype printmaking resulted in a suite of expressive prints, and Maria Wæhrens combines her first exposure to intaglio printmaking with her intuitive, gestural brushstrokes in a series of monotypes.
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Andreas Eriksson
A patchwork of shapes coalesces in Andreas Eriksson’s etching Skimmer. It bears his painterly signature of working on the border between figuration and abstraction. The individual colour fields can be read as geological forms, patches of grass, bushes, or trees; the overall composition evokes a sense of the landscape. Like in his paintings, Eriksson’s choice of colours radiates intention. Nevertheless, the etching’s colour palette is surprising, ranging from soft, muted pastel shades to strikingly bright, almost neon-like tones.
For Skimmer, Andreas Eriksson has further developed a sandblasting drypoint technique, which he had first experimented with for his print Risberg, 2022. The tonal patchwork of shapes was created by sandblasting the copper plates through specially made stencils. A variety of particles was used in the sandblasting process to create different indentations in the plates: sand resulted in smooth, grainy surfaces, whereas gravel left a coarse, stipple texture. The final etching is composed from the five individually sandblasted plates printed on top of one another, so that the different shapes meet and overlap.

- Artist, title and year
- Skimmer, 2023
- Print technique
- Sandblasted drypoint on Somerset 300 g Paper size 89 × 65 cm (35 × 25.6 in)
- Edition
- Edition of 12
- Price
- 3.000 EUR (excl. VAT)
- Registration number:
- ID: AnE 23 001-1

Wardell Milan
Wardell Milan’s large-scale prints are complex, multi-layered compositions that combine a myriad of etching techniques. They depict human bodies immersed in arcadian landscapes, which were drawn on copper plates with etching needles, brushes and acid. Milan’s new prints offer an almost utopian counterproposal to his previous etchings, which referred to the political and social reality of the United States with explicit and at times brutal honesty.
For all their serenity, the etchings still present the human body as fundamentally political: his protagonists interact not through words, but through body language and touch; they seem removed from societal power struggles, but they still negotiate social relationships through sexual and spiritual intimacy.
Milan carefully planned and executed the individual pictorial elements, but deliberately delayed decisions regarding the overall compositions until the individual printing plates were assembled for proofing. He thus combines the signature technical precision of his work on copper plates with the intuitive feel for the construction of multi-layered pictorial spaces, which he developed through his practice in the medium of collage.

- Artist, title and year
- Lovers, taking in the air, 2023
- Print technique
- Aquatint Burnishing Drypoint Line etching Open bite Soft ground etching Spit bite aquatint Water bite aquatint on Hahnemühle Bütten 350 g Paper size 144 × 116.5 cm (56.7 × 45.9 in)
- Edition
- Edition of 16
- Price
- 6.800 EUR (excl. VAT)
- Registration number:
- ID: WaM 23 001-1

Jockum Nordström
Jockum Nordström’s etchings are imbued with a surreal, old-worldly atmosphere that is typical of his work. Grotesque figures in old-fashioned clothes, equipped with props such as top hats and pipes, inhabit dream-like spaces whose proportions do not obey the laws of the physical world.
Although they are clearly part of Nordström’s unique oeuvre, the etchings have a distinct atmosphere, which sets them apart from his work in other media. This is not least due to his use of colour: Nordström limited himself to a palette of three specific colours, assigning individually blended shades to each motive. ‘I decided to focus on a small number of colours in order to narrow down the infinite number of possibilities’, he explains.

- Artist, title and year
- Larghetto, 2024
- Print technique
- Drypoint Soft ground etching on Hahnemühle Bütten 300 g Paper size 49 × 58 cm (19.3 × 22.8 in)
- Edition
- Edition of 14
- Price
- 3.000 EUR (excl. VAT)
- Registration number:
- ID: JoN 24 005-1

- Artist, title and year
- Konstnärens rum (Das Zimmer des Künstlers), 2024
- Print technique
- Drypoint Soft ground etching on Hahnemühle Bütten 300 g Paper size 62 × 53.5 cm (24.4 × 21.1 in)
- Edition
- Edition of 14
- Price
- 3.000 EUR (excl. VAT)
- Registration number:
- ID: JoN 24 001-1

- Artist, title and year
- Smokestack, 2024
- Print technique
- Drypoint Soft ground etching on Hahnemühle Bütten 300 g Paper size 62.5 × 53.5 cm (24.6 × 21.1 in)
- Edition
- Edition of 14
- Price
- 3.000 EUR (excl. VAT)
- Registration number:
- ID: JoN 24 002-1

- Artist, title and year
- De sista rökarna (The Last Smokers), 2024
- Print technique
- Soft ground etching on Hahnemühle Bütten 300 g Paper size 60 × 51 cm (23.6 × 20.1 in)
- Edition
- Edition of 14
- Price
- 3.000 EUR (excl. VAT)
- Registration number:
- ID: JoN 24 003-1

- Artist, title and year
- Lappen (The Note), 2024
- Print technique
- Soft ground etching on Hahnemühle Bütten 300 g Paper size 71 × 57 cm (28 × 22.4 in)
- Edition
- Edition of 14
- Price
- 3.200 EUR (excl. VAT)
- Registration number:
- ID: JoN 24 004-1

Frida Orupabo
Frida Orupabo’s large-scale photogravure Sickbed I is dominated by an oversized, massive bed that almost swallows up a female figure lying in it. The resting figure, a reoccurring motif in Orupabo’s work, references Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah’s concept of rest as a survival strategy in response to traumatic events.
All elements in Orupabo’s digital collage are riddled with unresolved contradictions: The figure in bed could be resting, but on closer inspection she appears to be fixed to the bedframe. The visual elements that make Orupabo’s composition are charged with tension highlighting a crucial element of Armah’s idea: that after rest, awakening must follow. With that in mind, the bed itself could be interpreted as a place of comfort and rest; but its oversized proportions seem almost threatening as something one cannot escape from.

- Artist, title and year
- Sickbed I, 2024
- Print technique
- Photogravure on Somerset 410 g Paper size 162 × 230 cm (63.8 × 90.6 in)
- Additional info on this edition:
- The print is constructed from four abutted sheets of paper.
- Edition
- Edition of 8
- Price
- 21.000 EUR (excl. VAT)
- Registration number:
- ID: FrO 24 001-1

Tal R
Tal R’s collaboration with BORCH Editions spans almost three decades and encompasses a wide range of printmaking techniques, from intimate black-and-white etchings to large-scale multicoloured woodcuts. Considering his productivity and willingness to experiment, it is all the more notable that Weather Report is Tal R’s first exploration of monotypes.
Monotypes are unique prints, created by painting on a featureless plate, which is then run through the printing press with a sheet of paper. In contrast to other printmaking techniques, the artist does not leave permanent marks on the plate but simply paints on its surface. The resulting image cannot be reproduced. For Weather Report, Tal R painted on PVC sheets which he hand-cut into geometric shapes. The tension between geometric shape and deliberately imperfect edges echoes his signature brushstroke; the motif and its shape enter into an aesthetic dialogue. Re-using the same plates several times, shapes return throughout the series of monotypes with fresh marks and, in some cases, the residue ink of previous monotypes which in printmaking is referred to as a ghost print.
The relation between frame and image is a recurring theme in Tal R’s work; in 2023 he has been exploring this relation in a series of paintings referenced in the Weather Report monotypes. Like these paintings, the monotypes depict the felled trees, light and colours of an eye-shaped clearing in a Danish forest. But instead of opening up the pictorial space to convey a sense of vastness and airiness, Tal R narrows the viewer’s field of vision to focus on subtle shapes and colours, as if through a peephole, with the unprinted parts of the sheets pointing to all that remains unseen.

- Artist, title and year
- Weather Report, 2023
- Print technique
- Monotype on Zerkall Bütten 450 g Framed size 100 × 73 cm (39.4 × 28.7 in)
- Edition
- Unique
- Price
- 5.300 EUR (excl. VAT)
- Registration number:
- ID: TaR 23 002-1

- Artist, title and year
- Weather Report, 2023
- Print technique
- Monotype on Zerkall Bütten 450 g Framed size 100 × 73 cm (39.4 × 28.7 in)
- Edition
- Unique
- Price
- 5.300 EUR (excl. VAT)
- Registration number:
- ID: TaR 23 010-1

Maria Wæhrens
Maria Wæhrens’ artistic impulse stems from those layers of consciousness that elude language and are difficult to grasp through the means of figurative art. She draws from sources that go beyond what is intellectually comprehensible – the body, emotions, and the subconscious – and transfers them into permanent physical manifestations.
Line and brushstroke are of central importance to Maria Wæhrens’ artistic work. They indicate movement and direction, and form the basis of complex, dynamic pictorial spaces which are characterized by the interplay of spontaneous mark-making and carefully considered compositions.
This concentration on line and brushstroke also guided Wæhrens’ first intensive exploration of the medium of printmaking. Apart from a series of three etchings, Wæhrens also worked with monotypes and monoprints, two traditional printing processes for creating unique pieces. The possibility of spontaneous mark-making with brush and colour suits her painterly approach and allows her to explore further possibilities of the medium beyond the serial aspect of printmaking.

- Artist, title and year
- Løgneren III, 2023
- Print technique
- Monotype on Hahnemühle Bütten 300 g Framed size 99.5 × 79 cm (39.2 × 31.1 in)
- Edition
- Unique
- Price
- 2.100 EUR (excl. VAT)
- Registration number:
- ID: MaWæ 23 005-1

- Artist, title and year
- Isbjerget II, 2023
- Print technique
- Monotype on Hahnemühle Bütten 300 g Framed size 99.5 × 79 cm (39.2 × 31.1 in)
- Edition
- Unique
- Price
- 2.100 EUR (excl. VAT)
- Registration number:
- ID: MaWæ 23 007-1