CHRIS THURMAN: ‘Why not a print?’ shows you don’t make a print on a whim
The works at the Firestation in Rosebank convey aspects of the current global zeitgeist
The title of the latest group exhibition presented by Lizamore & Associates at the Firestation in Rosebank, Why Not A Print?, gives the impression of a whimsical idea. It could be a question from an artist taken by the notion of trying out a new medium or a collector asking what might fill an empty wall: “Why not a print?” This shoulder-shrugging levity is, however, belied by two considerations.
The first is that, as curator Teresa Lizamore notes, printmaking is a highly technical art form, both “ancient” and, in the contemporary art scene, relatively “unconventional” (because inconvenient). It’s a finicky, costly, time-consuming process. You don’t make a print on a whim...
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