Dimensions: support: 691 x 585 mm
Copyright: © Vija Celmins | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Vija Celmins' "Constellation - Uccello" features a night sky juxtaposed with a linear rendering of what seems to be a vase. What is the symbolic weight of these images placed together? Curator: The pairing is evocative, isn't it? The night sky, a field of infinite potential, meeting the urn, a vessel, often a symbol of memory and containment. What stories might this juxtaposition tell about how we hold onto and understand our place in the cosmos? Editor: So, it's about memory? How does the vase relate? Curator: The urn, rendered in this almost skeletal, geometric form, suggests a rational attempt to define and contain something as vast and unknowable as the night sky. A cultural impulse, perhaps? Editor: That makes sense. I guess the vase is a symbol. Curator: Yes, each image is a constellation of cultural meanings. Editor: Fascinating!
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Constellation – Uccello is a print combining aquatint and etching on two separate plates, one of which depicts a star-filled sky while the other is a rendering of the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello’s famous Perspective Study of a Chalice c.1430–40 (Uffizzi, Florence). The plates are printed on a large portrait-oriented sheet of Fabriano Rosapina paper in an edition of forty-five plus twelve artist’s proofs. It was printed and published by Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited) in Los Angeles, in collaboration with master printmaker Doris Simmelink. The copy held by ARTIST ROOMS is edition number 28/49, noted at the bottom left corner of the print and signed and dated by the artist at the bottom right, in pencil.
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