Dimensions: image: 681 x 857 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Richard Hamilton | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: Here we have Richard Hamilton’s "Stage Proof 13," currently residing in the Tate Collections. Editor: It's giving me such mid-century anxiety—like a glamorous kind of fear, all flat planes and muted color. Curator: Note the restricted palette and the artist's reduction of form to distinct areas of color. It seems to reflect a deliberate flattening of visual information. Editor: Right, they're shielding their eyes, but from what? The blinding truth of consumer culture? Or maybe just a really bright movie? Curator: Semiotically, the obscured vision is intriguing. It signifies an obfuscation, perhaps a refusal to fully engage with a spectacle. Editor: Or, maybe it’s just Hamilton being cheeky, capturing that awkward moment of trying to enjoy something that’s a sensory overload. Makes you think, doesn't it? Curator: Indeed. It prompts an engagement with the layered meanings embedded within popular culture. Editor: Makes me want to see what they are shielding their eyes from.
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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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