Dimensions: image: 640 x 420 mm
Copyright: © Helmut Federle | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This cyanotype, "Amazon, Peru, 1988" by Helmut Federle, has such an intense, almost dreamlike quality. The monochromatic blue really pulls me in. What do you see in this piece? Curator: The deep blue certainly evokes a sense of mystery, doesn't it? I see this as a potent symbol of the untamed, a reminder of nature's enduring power and the cultural memory embedded within landscapes. Editor: So, it's not just a picture of a jungle? Curator: Not at all! The choice of cyanotype, an early photographic process, layers a sense of history onto the image. The dense foliage, rendered in such an archaic style, hints at the timelessness of the Amazon, and its vulnerability. A double meaning, perhaps. Editor: I never would have thought of it that way. It feels much deeper now. Curator: Exactly! Art transforms as our understanding deepens.
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Blue Sisters, Structures of Deviance is a portfolio of ten prints executed in blue ink on white paper. Five are photogravures depicting trees. The other five are soft ground etching and aquatint on paper; these images are abstract and have a smaller plate size than the photogravures. The prints were produced at Druckatelier Kurt Zein in Vienna, where the artist lives and works. They were published in an edition of thirty-five with ten artist’s and publisher’s proofs; Tate owns number eleven in the edition.
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