Description
Magdalena Wysocka [b.1987, Poland] and Claudio Pogo [b.1978, Germany] are a Berlin based artist duo who have been working together since 2016. With backgrounds in printmaking and photography, their work bridges a variety of related mediums, from large-scale printed canvas works to handmade photobooks. Their practice is centred around collecting and re-contextualising found imagery.
Material is sourced from vintage photographs, books and other archives, stripped of its original context and transformed to create new visual narratives. Wysocka / Pogo utilise Risography, a Japanese stencil printing technique from the 1960’s, to express this reinterpretation. They purposefully push the risograph’s boundaries heightening the elements of chance and unpredictability in the finished pieces. Their canvases become a beautiful and uniquely tangible reflection on the passage of time and context, as well as machine-made replication vs. hand-made interpretation… READ MORE
Noxious Weeds
Noxious Weeds began like many of their series, with a discovery. A vintage book cataloguing common weeds. In this series Wysocka / Pogo have reworked its images through their own unique Risograph process. Each work is printed by hand in two tones, with one print laid directly over the other on a single sheet of raw canvas. Registering the second print exactly over the first is hard to control, and it took the artists sustained experimentation to master. The small shifts between the two layers create subtle double edges, and coupled with the texture of the canvas the plants seem to rise out of the weave.
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