Dimensions: image: 682 x 857 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Richard Hamilton | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have Richard Hamilton's "Stage Proof 16" from the Tate. The figures shielding their eyes create a real sense of discomfort, almost a refusal to look. What strikes you about this piece? Curator: The shielding gesture is interesting, isn't it? Consider the cultural memory attached to covering one's eyes. Is it shame? Fear? Or perhaps a rejection of spectacle, a conscious turning away from something overwhelming or disturbing? Editor: So, it’s not just about what they’re not seeing, but what they’re choosing not to see? Curator: Precisely. And what does it say about us, the viewers, positioned to observe their averted gaze? It hints at complicity, doesn't it? Editor: That’s a perspective I hadn’t considered. I'll definitely be looking at art differently now. Curator: Me too. Images are powerful containers of cultural meaning and memory.
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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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