Dimensions: image: 682 x 857 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Richard Hamilton | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: We’re looking at Richard Hamilton’s "Stage Proof 8." It's giving me major anxiety, actually; I mean, why are these figures obscuring their vision? What's your interpretation? Curator: It's like a visual echo of our own attempts to process an overwhelming media landscape, isn't it? Hamilton's always nudging us to question how we consume information. Do we really *see*, or are we just shielding ourselves from the glare? I think he wants us to remove our own hands, so to speak. Editor: That's powerful. I hadn’t considered it like that; it makes the piece feel almost… hopeful? Curator: Precisely. It's a call to clarity, a visual dare. Something to think about on the way home!
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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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