Landscape I – VI
Matt Saunders has been working on a series of landscape etchings since 2015. In an allusion to Wallace Stevens’ poem Six Significant Landscapes, the series comprises six prints. Drawn from film stills, each of Saunders‘ landscapes is at once an empty scene open to projection and an emblem of the emotive and narrative currents swirling off camera. Saunders has spoken of these works as ‘grasping for the subconsciousness’ of the film.
Landscape II (Dark Forest), 2015
€800
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- Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint on Hahnemühle Bütten 350g
Paper size 54 x 62.5 cm – Plate size 39.5 x 49.5 cm
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- Edition of 24
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- Printed by Julie Dam
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- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
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- ID: MaS 15 002-1
Landscape II and III (Dark and Bright Forest) present imagery from Menschen am Sonntag, a 1930 German silent film directed by Billy Wilder, a movie Saunders has worked with in several other print projects.
Landscape I (Swamp), 2015
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- Open bite Soap ground aquatint Soft ground etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint on Hahnemühle Bütten 350g
Paper size 53.5 x 62.5 cm – Plate size 39.5 x 49.5 cm
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- Edition of 24
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- Printed by Julie Dam
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- ID: MaS 15 001-1
Landscape I (Swamp) depicts a scene from the classic German movie Kuhle Wampe, a 1932 German feature film about unemployment, homelessness and left wing politics in the Weimar Republic.
Landscape III (Bright Forest), 2015
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- Open bite Soap ground aquatint Soft ground etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint on Hahnemühle Bütten 350g
Paper size 53.5 x 62.5 cm – Plate size 39.5 x 49.5 cm
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- Edition of 24
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- Printed by Julie Dam
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- ID: MaS 15 003-1
Acquired by The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Landscape II and III (Dark and Bright Forest) present imagery from Menschen am Sonntag, a 1930 German silent film directed by Billy Wilder, a movie Saunders has worked with in several other print projects.
Landscape IV (Zen Valley), 2019
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- Open bite Soap ground aquatint Spit bite aquatint on Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
Paper size 53.5 x 67.5 cm – Plate size 39 x 49 cm
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- ID: MaS 19 040-1
Zen Valley, the fourth etching, depicts a scene from King Hu’s 1971 film Touch of Zen.
MaS 15 002-1, 2023
€800
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- Open bite Soap ground aquatint on Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
Paper size 53.5 x 62.5 cm – Plate size 39.5 x 49 cm
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- Edition of 24
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- Printed by Thomas Jennions, Thomas Castenschiold Dehlholm
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- Published by BORCH Editions
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