Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) - Fernsehbild (Kicker) I grau
Fernsehbild (Kicker) was the first edition Polke produced on commission from the graphic art center Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg-Langenhorn. The series that emerged from this collaboration are seen as exemplary of how Polke kept stretching the boundaries of reproduction technique. Thus he gave more and more space to chance - with which he subsequently experimented in his paintings as well. With such experiments, he contributed to the renewal of postwar printmaking. For Fernsehbild (Kicker), Polke took a detail of a blurred photograph of a television picture showing a table football game, which he crumpled, smoothed and re-photographed. By deliberately helping classic misprints like creases and folds into the printing process, he flouted all the unwritten rules of graphics. He then printed the photograph on four different colors of precious paper. The result wriggled in its contradiction and was a deliberate attempt to shock the conservative members of the griffin art society (information from De Pont museum Tilburg)
Offset lithograph on Jura-Bütten board. Edition Griffelkunst 142 copies. 1971. Number 34. Signed r.o. Dimensions of image ca 84*64 cm.
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Fernsehbild (Kicker) was the first edition Polke produced on commission from the graphic art center Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg-Langenhorn. The series that emerged from this collaboration are seen as exemplary of how Polke kept stretching the boundaries of reproduction technique. Thus he gave more and more space to chance - with which he subsequently experimented in his paintings as well. With such experiments, he contributed to the renewal of postwar printmaking. For Fernsehbild (Kicker), Polke took a detail of a blurred photograph of a television picture showing a table football game, which he crumpled, smoothed and re-photographed. By deliberately helping classic misprints like creases and folds into the printing process, he flouted all the unwritten rules of graphics. He then printed the photograph on four different colors of precious paper. The result wriggled in its contradiction and was a deliberate attempt to shock the conservative members of the griffin art society (information from De Pont museum Tilburg)
Offset lithograph on Jura-Bütten board. Edition Griffelkunst 142 copies. 1971. Number 34. Signed r.o. Dimensions of image ca 84*64 cm.
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