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Own Art fifth anniversary portfolio box set in partnership with The Multiple Store
28 Mar 2009
View the print by Fiona Banner
View the print by Dan Hays
View the print by Simon Periton
To mark its tenth anniversary, and to raise funds for its new commissions programme, The Multiple Store has just published three new limited edition prints by internationally renowned artists Fiona Banner, Dan Hays and Simon Periton.
In celebration of this, as well as our own 5th Anniversary, Own Art has teamed up with The Multiple Store to offer 5 sets of the prints, in a special presentation box, for the special price of £1,200 - a saving of over £350 on the cost of the prints if purchased individually. The portfolio is also available to purchase with an Own Art loan, allowing you to spread the cost over 10 months at £120 per month.
The Multiple Store is a not-for-profit organisation which enables new collectors to buy artwork by major artists at affordable prices. They commission new multiples (editions in both 2-D and 3-D) by leading contemporary artists. Previous commissions include editions by David Batchelor, Keith Coventry, Anya Gallaccio, Langlands & Bell, Cornelia Parker; Alison Wilding and Paul Winstanley.
Details of the prints are listed below. The portfolio will be available to view in person at The Multiple Store stand (Stand 31) at The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy (22nd - 26th April 2009). For purchases using an Own Art loan please contact ownart@artscouncil.org.uk or telephone 0845 300 6200.
Fiona Banner
Fiona Banner, Book 1/1, Block print on mirror card, Size: 45 x 64 cm, Edition: 65
Fiona Banner’s work is represented in many collections in the UK & abroad including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Philadelphia Museum, The Arts Council of England, Tate Gallery, London and the Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis. Fiona Banner is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London, and in 2003 she was short-listed for the Turner Prize.
Each print in this edition, Book 1/1, is the same and yet each is unique. Each one has its own ISBN number and is registered under its own individual title. Each one of the edition is therefore an official publication and each is an edition in, and only of, itself. An edition of one...a book reduced to a reference, purely an imagined space.
Printed on reflective mirror card, Book 1/1 is a one-page, one-off book with a story that the viewer cannot escape: reflected in the surface, the viewer, the time and space of the artwork, is its subject.
Fiona Banner questions the currency of the multiple or limited edition. She has explored many of these issues in her work to date. Words, punctuation and copyright have been recurring themes within her work. Through The Vanity Press, the publishing company she set up in 1994, she has explored these subjects using the democratic medium of print.
Dan Hays
Dan Hays, Spring Snow, Screen print on Velin Arches Blanc paper, Size: 70.5 x 89 cm, Edition: 65
Dan Hays won the John Moores Painting Prize in 1997. His work is included in many art collections including the Tate Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, and the Natwest, Arts Council, and Victoria and Albert Museum Collections. Dan Hays’ solo show at Gallery Zürcher, New York continues until May 2009.
Spring Snow continues Dan Hays' exploration into ways that snow-covered landscapes can be represented. Under a grey sky, snow scenes are so often rendered colourless, yet over the past few years he has been painting them with points of pure, saturated colour. From a distance these scenes optically merge to form a grey-scale image. At closer range, however, colour perception takes hold, creating 'an impression of abstracted coloured noise'.
Spring Snow is a scene in two halves: both a snow-covered landscape depicted with black and white pixels (a nod to digital reproduction) and its reflection in a lake rendered using familiar half-tone colour separation techniques, pushed into perspective, and without the usual black component.
Subverting the Impressionist and Pointillist use of additive colour, Spring Snow makes reference to the noise or 'snow' between the channels as well as to Monet's water-lily paintings. Rosettes of pure colour viewed on the lake's surface coalesce into a grey-scale snow scene from a distance.
Simon Periton
Simon Periton, A Sunken Owl Prunes, 2009, Screenprint on 300gsm Somerset textured paper,
Size: 76cms x 59cm, Edition: 65
Simon Periton has had recent solo exhibitions at Sadie Coles HQ, London; The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh and Karyn Lovegrove Gallery Los Angele). Commissions include public sculpture projects for firstsite, Colchester, Essex; Channel Four, and the Victoria and AlbertMuseum. A monograph of his work was published in 2008 by Koenig Books and Sadie Coles HQ. He is represented by Sadie Coles HQ.
In 2007 Simon Periton painted Unknown Pleasures, a work on glass. A Sunken Owl Prunes - an anagram for Unknown Pleasures - began with the same image flipped horizontally to face the other way. The two works then part company. With the painting on glass the image was built up in layers on the back of the glass and in reverse. When this is turned around you are presented with a shiny glass surface across the whole image making the surface of the painting the focus of attention.
The process of screenprinting also builds up an image in layers but constructs the image by adding layers one on top of the other. In this respect Simon feels that there is a greater degree of accuracy in achieving a successful result:
"By adjusting the intensity of colours I was able to bring out a depth in the image which painting on glass didn’t seem to allow me. The matt varnish on the barbed wire contrasts with the overall gloss surface of the image and draws attention to the surface, making the barbed-wire grid seem like a leaded window, which was an aspect of the original painting on glass that I particularly liked."
