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golden shadows

Now, four new prints by Gudrun Åsling are available at ed-art.se. They are drypoint prints with gold leafing and differ in many ways from Gudrun Åsling's previous prints, both in terms of technique and expression. Åsling calls this new series "Figure". The name originated in the process itself, where the artist cut out shapes from copper plates, which she worked on in drypoint and then printed in black. When the prints have dried, she has attached small sheets of gold leaf with glue.

- I started with square copper plates and wanted to create shapes with an inherent movement, that had a appendant shadow. In the end, the shapes turned black and the shadow is golden, so the result was a kind of inverted shadow. But the effect was the same: a figure with a companion. I do not think of them as human figures but still something living; something spiritlike and mysterious.

In her earlier prints Gudrun Åsling uses the entire color spectrum, here she has reduced the colours to gold and black.

- Many years ago, I worked a lot in black and white, so this is something I’m finding my way back to. The black of intaglio prints is so incredible, it is a deep, beautiful black that contrasts nicely with the gold.