Dimensions: image: 683 x 857 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Richard Hamilton | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Richard Hamilton's "Stage Proof 19" presents two figures shielding their faces. It feels intrusive, like a snapshot of a private moment. What symbols do you see at play here? Curator: The covering of the face is a powerful motif. Throughout history, it's signified shame, protection, even blindness to truth. Consider its resonance in modern media, shielding identities. Editor: So, you see a connection between the figures' gesture and broader cultural ideas about privacy? Curator: Precisely. And what about the car, a symbol of mobility, but here a confined space? Perhaps Hamilton is asking: where are we going, and who is really in control of the narrative? Editor: That’s fascinating, looking at the car as a symbol itself, and the ambiguity of its use. It gives a new layer of meaning to the piece. Curator: Indeed, visual symbols layer meaning to the whole artwork.
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Release – Stage Proofs 1-13 and 16-19 (P02416-32; the series is incomplete) is a group of seventeen prints showing the process of building up colour to make the print Release (P04254). Each proof represents the successive addition of a screen, made from a hand-cut stencil, used to apply a particular colour. The completed print Release combines the seventeen colour screens, each used once, and the photographic black screen which has the texture of an imprint on canvas as well as the photographic halftone, used twice.
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