[image_with_animation image_url=”10543″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] There is something so danged exciting about making a big piece of art. I mean, a really really big piece of art. The work to make a visual design, which is most of the art process, does not usually change much. The labor can involve some different tools, some physical use of our sedentary bodies, and time. After the design and the physical making, the result – a giant artwork – is infinitely more thrilling than a little standard thing. Big is impressive. Big is unusual. Big is fun. Looking at a big artwork, a viewer has the experience of being inside it, physically impacted by it, not separate from it. Big is beautiful.

On Tuesday we start our Giant Woodblock series, a class to gear up for our big Steamroller Printmaking event on August 25th. This is a very rare opportunity to make and print giant woodblocks (with the help of power tools and a support class) and have them printed in celebration and hard hats. Don’t miss the chance to go big!

Below, I found a series of giant woodcuts by William Kentridge, a series for which he had a lot of help printing (and so will you). Enjoy. [image_with_animation image_url=”10539″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]

Triumphs and Laments

In early 2016 William Kentridge started work on a 550 meter work called Triumphs and Laments. These Triumphs and Laments would be based on his drawings, scenes from the cultural and political history of Rome. Kentridge started collaborating with Master Printer Jillian Ross of David Krut Workshop (DKW), on a grouping of three figures from the frieze as this would be their first woodcut project with Kentridge, titled Mantegna. Excerpts from davidkrutprojects.com, please read more here.

Blogger: Sbongiseni Khulu

“As the proofing of William Kentridge’s The Flood continues it becomes all the more apparent to us that everything is subject to change. Be it the woods natural inclination to expand and contract due to external stimuli or our rigorous efforts to document those changes so that we may attain the same image each and every time, everything is subject to change.” [image_with_animation image_url=”10541″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%

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