PURE WHITE (from "Signs")

David R. Julienne

Artist David Julienne provided the following statement about his series of monoprints "SIGNS":

"SIGNS is a series of messages containing broad elements of 60s Pop, 70s Minimalism and the verbal emptiness of contemporary advertising. The SIGNS are manufactured on sheets of achival Rives BFK. The virginal white art paper has an overall candy-like coating applied by the industrial screen printing process, obliterating its truth. With the most minimal craft possible, the text is formed by the rapid and violent bomb-like combustion of ignited gunpowder burning the surface of the print.

The intent is to created a complicity between the SIGNS and the audience, oblique and autobiographical, public and private, self-revealing yet stylisically anonymous. SIGNS are not intended to be stretched, mounted, or frmaed, for the SIGNS are in a state of arrested self destruction, unprotected, vulnerable. To these means SIGNS are merely to be pinned to the wall, much like a handbill left to twist in the wind."