Hand press print from digital matrix, black typographic ink on paper, A3 sheet. Based on Magazine Cover: Der Dada n°2, 1919

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“This print is based on Der Dada no2 cover from 1919. I wanted to re-print this magazine cover as an unique, with the typical margins of classic etching prints, and with elements that make allusion to the often fastidious typographical composition of that time. I used 9 copies of the downloaded image and re-composed the cover on my computer screen using each copy as a window, reframing and focusing on each element of the composition. The computer windows elements (scroll bar, frame, name of the file…) play as an equivalent to the printers tools to compose a page on letterpress works (reglets, quoins, spacers…). The result is a composition with windows, insisting on the fact that it is an ensemble of digital copies. Then I printed on my printing press this computer composition, to highlight the paper and ink side of this iconic cover”. Stéphane Mroczkowski

Hand Press Print from digital matrix, ink on paper, A3 sheet

Based on magazine cover: 391 New York, N.3, 1 March 1917

“I am fascinated by the constant reference to print in Duchamp’s work. The printed document, the «handmade» document, from the simple stamp to the sophisticated techniques he used for his «Green Box» (1934) for example, incredible edition of his studio documents in fac-simile.” Stéphane Mroczkowski

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Hand Press Print from digital matrix, ink on paper, A3 sheet

Based on: Marcel Duchamp, Handmade stereopticon slides, 1918

“I am fascinated by the constant reference to print in Duchamp’s work. The printed document, the «handmade» document, from the simple stamp to the sophisticated techniques he used for his «Green Box» (1934) for example, incredible edition of his studio documents in fac-simile.” Stéphane Mroczkowski

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