The French-Swedish artist duo Gfeller+Hellsgård is in constant quest to test and push the boundaries of screen-printing, within the art world often called serigraphy. The duo deconstructing both conventions, techniques and formal structures.
The series of mono-prints “W.O.P” (Work on Paper) is an ongoing prints series that Gfeller + Hellsggård have been working on for many years. Each print is unique and conceived like an experimental painting, in which accidents and errors play an important part, with intentional overlaps, smudges, bleeding, glitches and transparencies.
W.O.P 254
The series of works is approached as a struggle, a negotiation with the image over a long period of time (up to several years sometimes). Layers after layers, the picture takes over and fights for its own life. Experimentation can not be about control. In the “W.O.P” series, chance is given a new prominence to create an evocative fractal landscape of shapes, colours and depth.
W.O.P 310
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About the printing technique: Monoprint is the designation of prints that are unique, but which have been built up based on printing elements that can that are used several times and therefore can reappear in several pictures. Read more about screen printing/serigraphy on our Printing techniques page
