The Balcony
In The Balcony Milan explores the absurdity of politics, social and political structures, power dynamics and spectatorship and how these forces affect one’s personal existence. The portfolio’s title is an allusion to the relationship between performer and spectator in a theatre setting. Milan imagines the viewers observing the action ‘as if they are sitting above in a balcony watching the melodrama unfold before them.’ In his work the human bodies themselves becomes stages on which questions of gender, race, sexuality and power are being negotiated.
Milan spent the first days in the studio working on preliminary drawings, using images from newspapers or magazines as references for the compositions he would later execute on copper plates. He then transferred these drawings into line etchings while simultaneously experimenting with other intaglio printing techniques which he then incorporated into his etchings. The result is a suite of prints executed in a range of grey tones, pattern and line work, employing time-honoured printmaking techniques to create decidedly contemporary, politically charged visual narratives.
They have twenty billion irresponsible dollars to spend, 2019
- Print technique
- Aquatint Burnishing Line etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 40 x 50 cm – Plate size 26 x 33 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 12
- Registration no
- WaM 19 008-1
- Printer
- Printed by Thomas Jennions
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
November 25, 2018, 2019
- Print technique
- Aquatint Burnishing Line etching Soft ground etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 40 x 50 cm – Plate size 26 x 33 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 12
- Registration no
- WaM 19 001-1
- Printer
- Printed by Thomas Jennions
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
The Priest. The Shooter. The Flag, 2019
- Print technique
- Aquatint Burnishing Line etching Soft ground etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 50 x 40 cm – Plate size 33 x 26 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 12
- Registration no
- WaM 19 002-1
- Printer
- Printed by Thomas Jennions
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
Trump riding his own dick, 2019
- Print technique
- Aquatint Burnishing Line etching Soft ground etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 40 x 50 cm – Plate size 26 x 33 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 12
- Registration no
- WaM 19 003-1
- Printer
- Printed by Thomas Jennions
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
Cops shot the Kid, 2019
- Print technique
- Aquatint Burnishing Line etching Soft ground etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 50 x 40 cm – Plate size 33 x 26 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 12
- Registration no
- WaM 19 004-1
- Printer
- Printed by Thomas Jennions
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
We are a War Country. This is War time, 2019
- Print technique
- Aquatint Burnishing Line etching Soft ground etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 40 x 50 cm – Plate size 26 x 33 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 12
- Registration no
- WaM 19 005-1
- Printer
- Printed by Thomas Jennions
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
Fuck the Klan, 2019
- Print technique
- Aquatint Burnishing Line etching Soft ground etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 40 x 50 cm – Plate size 33 x 26 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 12
- Registration no
- WaM 19 006-1
- Printer
- Printed by Thomas Jennions
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
I am not crazy life is, 2019
- Print technique
- Aquatint Burnishing Drypoint Line etching Soft ground etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 40 x 50 cm – Plate size 26 x 33 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 12
- Registration no
- WaM 19 007-1
- Printer
- Printed by Thomas Jennions
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
They have twenty billion irresponsible dollars to spend, 2019
- Print technique
- Aquatint Burnishing Line etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 40 x 50 cm – Plate size 26 x 33 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 12
- Registration no
- WaM 19 008-1
- Printer
- Printed by Thomas Jennions
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist