“David Lynch – Litographs”
Exhibition Grand Opening: Sunday, 25th November, 20.00
Bydgoszcz Municipal Gallery bwa, Gda\u0144ska Street 20
Exhibition open to the public till 30th December, 2012
The exhibition is organised by PLUS CAMERIMAGE Film Festival and bwa Gallery in Bydgoszcz.<\/b><\/p>\n
During the 20th edition of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography PLUS CAMERIMAGE<\/b>, David Lynch<\/b> will be honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award for Directing<\/b>. On this occasion, an album dedicated to the life and work of David Lynch<\/b> will be released. This exclusive publication, containing a rich collection of photographs from the private archives of the director, from movie sets, and reproductions of various non-movie works, will be available for purchase in the Festival Centre \u2014 Opera Nova during the Festival, and until the end of the exhibition at the Municipal Gallery bwa. <\/p>\n Shapes and Dreams<\/b><\/p>\n Drawn by David Lynch’s<\/b> passion for evocative industrial spaces, in February 2007 the Director of the Fondation Cartier, Herv\u00e9 Chand\u00e8s, led Lynch to the heart of Montparnasse and to our lithographic workshop, built at the end of the nineteenth century. As soon as Lynch crossed the threshold of Idem Publishers for the first time, I knew instinctively that it would be a seminal visit. At that time he was mounting his show, \u201cThe Air Is on Fire”, a comprehensive review of his creative journey for the previous forty years, nearby at the Fondation. I felt that he responded to the creative energy that always circulated in this sanctuary, where the masterworks of Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti, Miro, Chagall, and many other illustrious artists were printed. Unhesitatingly, he accepted the spontaneously proffered invitation to come and work on the zinc plates and lithographic stones. <\/p>\n Patrice Forest <\/div>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “David Lynch – Litographs” Exhibition Grand Opening: Sunday, 25th November, 20.00 Bydgoszcz Municipal Gallery bwa, Gda\u0144ska Street 20 Exhibition open…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiadomosci-plus-camerimage-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The exhibition at the bwa Gallery in Bydgoszcz<\/b> will feature dozens of lithographic works by David Lynch<\/b>, the world-famous director who began his artistic adventure with painting and is also involved in lithography. He has already created more than 160 works in this technique for the Paris printing house Idem Publishers. David Lynch<\/b> is a multi-talented artist – painter, photographer and musician. The exhibition will also showcase two short animated films by Lynch: Six Figures Getting Sick<\/i><\/span> (1966) and The Alphabet<\/i><\/span> (1968). <\/p>\n
Lithography is a graphic technique where the drawing is done first on the lithographic stone, and then printed. One of these stones will be an additional attraction of the exhibition. The lithographic works presented in Bydgoszcz are mostly black and white and, as you can expect of Lynch, they are dark, full of surreal stories, disturbing in its understatements, referring to death, pain and eroticism. They are just very… Lynch-style<\/i>. <\/p>\nDavid Lynch at Idem, Paris 2011<\/i>
Lithographic stone has the unique ability to store all the imprints of the greasy ink that is laid upon it either by crayons, brushes, or even fingers. Lynch<\/b> immediately seized upon the immense possibilities that were offered through this technique, which he described as organic. The ritual is already well established. For him, everything begins with the idea which, like alchemy, proceeds to intersect shapes with dreams, with ink becoming the catalyst. The moment is deeply focused and nothing interrupts the artist’s concentration, not even the noise of the presses, whose regular rhythms set the soothing pulse of the atelier. Out of the profound blackness, tempered by infinite washes, the design appears, organically coming to life. Lynch<\/b> pauses and writes several words or a sentence on the stone and, like a keystone, his words complete the work.
Choreographed like a ballet, the printers file in. Having been prepared, the stone is carried in the flatbed\u2014that’s the long-awaited moment when the image is transmitted onto the Japanese paper. It’s a moment of adjustments and rarely of regrets. The knowhow of the lithographers melds with the talent of the artist and ends up with a \u201cGood to go” command. The flatbed presses purr in pleasure.
So far, more than one hundred and sixty lithographs have been created by David Lynch. The synthesis of man, artist, work and place is perfect. Time is suspended to everyone’s content. <\/p>\n
Paris, 31 August 2012
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