Slouching Towards Bethlehem
In these chromatic large-scale prints, Julie Mehretu combines photogravure with classic intaglio printing techniques. The base layers are distorted news images from anti-immigration protests. The media images are blurred to allow the subliminal forms, color and light from the photos to merge with the complex compositions of agitated gestures and erasures which Mehretu executed on copper plates in a variety of printing techniques.
Mehretu’s painting and drawing practice has long been complemented by printmaking projects. Her first collaboration with BORCH Editions, Epigraph, Damascus (2016), marked a point of departure both in terms of scale and technical complexity of her print projects. The prints from Slouching Towards Bethlehem testify to the shift in Mehretu’s painterly practice reflecting her preoccupation with modified digital imagery as well as her evolved mark-making.
Third Seal (R 6:5), 2020
Price on request- Print technique
- Aquatint Open bite Photogravure Sugar lift aquatint on Somerset White Satin 400g
Paper size 170 x 208 cm
The print is constructed from four abutted sheets of paper.
- Edition
- Edition of 18
- Series/Set
- Series of 4
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Thomas Jennions & Mette Ulstrup
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
- Signed by:
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- Registration no
- ID: JuM 20003-1
Acquired by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation; Pinault Collection, Paris, Venice;
First Seal (R 6:1), 2020
Price on request- Print technique
- Aquatint Open bite Photogravure Sugar lift aquatint on Somerset White Satin 400g
Paper size 170 x 208 cm
The print is constructed from four abutted sheets of paper.
- Edition
- Edition of 18
- Series/Set
- Series of 4
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Thomas Jennions & Mette Ulstrup
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
- Signed by:
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- Registration no
- ID: JuM 20001-1
Acquired by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation; Pinault Collection, Paris, Venice;
Second Seal (R 6:3), 2020
Price on request- Print technique
- Aquatint Open bite Photogravure Sugar lift aquatint on Somerset White Satin 400g
Paper size 170 x 208 cm
The print is constructed from four abutted sheets of paper.
- Edition
- Edition of 18
- Series/Set
- Series of 4
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Thomas Jennions & Mette Ulstrup
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
- Signed by:
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- Registration no
- ID: JuM 20002-1
Acquired by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation; Pinault Collection, Paris, Venice;
Fourth Seal (R 6:7), 2020
Price on request- Print technique
- Aquatint Open bite Photogravure Sugar lift aquatint on Somerset White Satin 400g
Paper size 170 x 208 cm
The print is constructed from four abutted sheets of paper.
- Edition
- Edition of 18
- Series/Set
- Series of 4
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Thomas Jennions & Mette Ulstrup
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
- Signed by:
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- Registration no
- ID: JuM 20004-1
Acquired by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation; Pinault Collection, Paris, Venice;
Fourth Seal (R 6:7), 2020
Price on request- Print technique
- Aquatint Open bite Photogravure Sugar lift aquatint on Somerset White Satin 400g
Paper size 170 x 208 cm
The print is constructed from four abutted sheets of paper.
- Edition
- Edition of 18
- Series/Set
- Series of 4
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Thomas Jennions & Mette Ulstrup
- Publisher
- Published by BORCH Editions
- Signed by:
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- Registration no
- ID: JuM 20004-1
Acquired by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation; Pinault Collection, Paris, Venice;