Pranas: "Incablocs" - gravures en couleurs / Art Investigation

 

Pranas Gailius

  1928 - 2015 (biography)

1972  

blockprint and screenprint 

12 1/2 x 11 1/16" image size (without text) 

signed in the block, lower left 

not stated 

text: "Pranas / 'Incablocs' / gravures en couleurs / Art Investigation /38 rue saint-sulpice / etage escalier gauche / du 24 mai au 14 juin 1972" 

 

cream similie-vellum wove 

published 

artist 

21019 

$300.00 

A hand-printed poster for the exhibtion "Pranas - Incablocs - Gravures en couleurs", featuring Pranas Gailius' print cycle "Incablocs" - a series of blockprints based on early memories of his childhood in Lithuania. This poster was handprinted, with an embossment from the linocut creating texture in the image.

While he was born in Lithuania, Gailius wasn't able to pursue art as a career until he moved to Paris. There, he met Fernand Leger and was exposed to an ever-changing art scene. His work would become a synthesis of his childhood recollections - Lithuanian folk art, pre-industrialized rural life, his strong bond with his grandparents- and the waves of inspiration that came from being in the world's leading art hub.

From an article written by Lithuanian publication Pasaulio Lietuvis: 'The artist was inspired to create the graphic cycle Incablock by his childhood memories: "Incablock is my grandmother's spinning wheel from my childhood memories: it is the wheel itself, the ornamented spindle placed on it, as well as the thread and its graphic dance when it is spun, tension and relaxation...rolling up into a ball. And grandma. Man and tool. Only the tool and the person have the history of their experiences, the weight of survival. Just as a tool is adapted to its purpose, so a person has his own destiny, his own purpose."'

This work was previously glued down and retains residue on the back that shows faintly on the edges of the recto (can be matted out). The price reflects the condition.