Laura Winkler

Passionswege

Presentation

A BUZZING PROCESSION

Kirsten Lubach Graveurmeisterin, Alexandre Delasalle

  • 20.–29.9.2024, 11am–7pm
  • Cocktail: 21.9.2024, 4pm–10pm
  • Demonstration in the copperplate printing workshop: 24.9.2024, 11am
  • Demonstration in the copperplate printing workshop: 26.9.2024, 5.30pm

KUPFERSTICH- UND DRUCKATELIER LUBACH

3., Ungargasse 22

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The Viennese engraver Kirsten Lubach and the French designer Alexandre Delasalle share an interest in imagery and written characters. During the course of their Passionswege cooperation, they devised an anachronistic new edition of traditional copperplates that combines classical rocaille ornament (shellwork) with typographic embellishments, mecha-manga insects, and advertising photographs from supermarkets – and thus added a beguiling new pictorial cosmos to the floral repertoire that is characteristic to engraving. The result is an artfully designed natural paradise with carefully developed details. The curious image not only represents a remarkable symbiosis of traditional handcraft and state-of-the-art design, but also symbolizes the preservation of the legacy of the Viennese copperplate printer Wolfgang Schön, whose Passionswege cooperation with Studio Es in 2016 is the stuff of legends and who was succeeded by Kirsten Lubach in 2021.