Dimensions: unconfirmed: 260 x 210 mm
Copyright: © Piotr Uklanski | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This photograph by Piotr Uklanski captures a city building facade. The stone-like texture and rhythmic window placement create a peculiar effect. What strikes you most about its composition? Curator: The facade's quasi-organic tessellation, contrasted with the rigid window grid, establishes a visual tension. Note also the subtle light play across the building, which accentuates the planar surface. How does this interplay affect your reading? Editor: I see how the light emphasizes the facade's flatness. It makes me question the illusion of depth created by the stone pattern. It's like a puzzle, both familiar and strange. Curator: Precisely. The photograph invites us to consider the surface not as a representation of something else, but as an object in itself. Editor: I appreciate the way you look at the materiality and the composition, rather than trying to find some hidden meaning right away. Thanks! Curator: It's been a pleasure to share a new way of seeing the artwork.
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This print is one of twenty works produced by contemporary artists for the Cubitt Print Box in 2000. Cubitt is an artist-run gallery and studio complex in north London. In 2001 the complex moved from King’s Cross to Islington and the prints were commissioned as part of a drive to raise funds to help finance the move, and to support future exhibitions and events at the new gallery space. All the artists who contributed to the project had previously taken part in Cubitt’s programme. The portfolio was produced in an edition of 100 with twenty artists’ proofs; Tate’s copy is number sixty-six in the series.