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Arturo Herrera
American, born Venezuela, 1959
Berlin Singers, 2010
set of ten prints: collage, digital print, etching, and screen print
Edition: 11/20
sheet: 18 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (46.04 x 36.83 cm)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Charles W. Goodyear Fund, 2011
P2011:12a-j
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Each of the ten works in the suite of prints “Berlin Singers” features a 1950s photograph of a different Berlin singing star originally published in in the Deutsche Oper Berlin’s librettos (printed booklets which contained the text of an opera). However, layers of collage obstruct the singers’ faces, making them very difficult to find. To create these images, Arturo Herrera explored a variety of mark-marking techniques—from crayon, marker, and pencil drawing to acrylic painting and tea staining—on impressions made from found copper plates, stained and scratched from previous use. The artist screenprinted each work with a line drawing in transparent ink and added one or two pieces of additional collage as a final step. The outcome of Herrera’s laborious process is a series of fractured, stratified portraits that recontexualizes its subjects.
Label from Arturo Herrera: Little Bits of Modernism, December 12, 2014–April 5, 2015
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- Wall Drawing # 1268: Scribbles: Staircase (AKAG) ,
- Difficult ,
- Femme retroussant sa chemise (Woman Lifting Her Chemise) ,
- L'Age d'Airain (Age of Bronze) ,
- Milkweed ,
- Fields of Grain as Seen from Train ,
- Numbers in Color ,
- Les falaises de Gréville (The Cliffs of Gréville) ,
- George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold ,