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Now, prints from Patrick Wagner's Graveyard Prints series and the series "33", conceived during the artist's 33rd year of life, are available at ed-art.se.

The Graveyard prints series is the playful result of Wagner’s research into medieval small format prints. The artist etches tiny skeletons on copper plates, which are then cut up into small shapes, like archaeological digging sites. The skeletons’ poses are referencing old dance of the dead works, where the dead are often depicted in everyday situations, as if still alive. 

The skeleton plates storage box

The works are printed with chine-collé technique; colorful, Japanese and Chinese paper is laminated on on the backing paper, often in two layers. These small papers reinforce the shape of the plate and the embossment into the thick European backing paper, and add a layer of colour and lightness, in contrast to the memento more of the skeleton motif.

Detail from one of the Graveyard Prints

In addition, Wagner's series "33" is now also available online. “33” consists of 19 prints that were created during the artist's 33rd year of life, a follow-up to the series "30 years of heartbreak and failure" that Wagner completed the year he turned 30. The 33 series is full of references to both popular culture and history–songs, emojis, medieval prints, and even math. Text and word-play is an integral part of the series. In the print "DE", for example, the initial letters DE are tied together with a number of endings–DEath, DEcadence, DEsire, DEspair, DElirium, DElight. The associations in the head of the beholder are bound to flow in all directions.

In other prints, such as “FANTASY FUTURE", seemingly unrelated words are connected by lines, to form an impalpable but experienced coherence; forverly – sacred – bones – calm – calamity – unrest – control – fun route – slow job. In a small box, even "Mark Lomfuckingbardi" can be found, as a a wink to the doyen of this type of word diagrams.

Detail from FANTASY FUTURE

The basic design of the prints are simple black and white etchings, but on some prints, the artist has experimented further. Some prints are hand colored and two are printed on silken cloth.

This series of very detailed prints is best contemplated form a near distance, so feel free to use the zoom function to really come in close contact with the prints!

About the artist: Patrick Wagner was born in 1980. Today he teaches printmaking at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and has focused his oeuvre largely to prints.

All works by Patrick Wagner

The artist himself in his office at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm