De Telegraaf Possibly 1937

This is a newspaper called De Telegraaf, and it's printed on newsprint, which is a very specific choice. The way it’s aged, that yellowing of the paper, it’s like an unintentional monochrome. I mean, newspapers aren’t exactly known for their color palettes, right? The texture is all about the newsprint itself, which is pretty rough, and the ink sitting right on the surface. It reminds me of early Rauschenberg, but without all the fuss. Look at how the image is reproduced: a kind of dot matrix that flattens everything out. No pretense here, it's not trying to hide its process. The whole thing, for me, is like a found object, a ready-made, straight from the streets. You have to admire that. It says something about art as a conversation, an ongoing exchange of ideas, an embrace of ambiguity over fixed meanings.