London Original Print Fair
White Cube participates in the 40th edition of the London Original Print Fair at Somerset House this spring. Celebrating printmaking in all its forms, London Original Print Fair is the city’s longest running art fair.
The gallery brings together a curated selection of works by leading women artists who use prints and multiples as a means of expression and a space for experimentation. Artists presented include Julie Curtiss, Tracey Emin, Louise Giovanelli, Mona Hatoum, Rachel Kneebone, Virginia Overton, Ilana Savdie and Christine Ay Tjoe.
Presented to coincide with Mona Hatoum’s (b. 1952, Beirut, to a Palestinian family) solo exhibition at White Cube Seoul, the booth features Mona Hatoum's lithograph Untitled (whisks) (2018).
Expanding on the artist’s early incorporation of kitchen utensils in her work, Untitled (whisks) exemplifies a key tenet of Hatoum’s sculptural practice: the appropriation of domestic objects to witty, often surreal effect. In the production of this work, the photographic image of the whisks was solarised and the background printed twice. The resultant deepening of the black creates a velvety effect, making the whisks appear as if they are emerging out of the black surface.
Horse Chestnut (2023) was produced on the occasion of Julie Curtiss’s exhibition ‘Bitter Apples’ at White Cube Hong Kong. While often influenced by traditional Japanese woodblock prints in the making of her work, this new edition marks Curtiss’s first use of the medium.
Informed by time spent in Japan, for this edition Julie Curtiss collaborated with The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints, Tokyo, an organisation that continues the tradition of Japanese woodcut print techniques, including the Edo-period practice of ukiyo-e. Facilitating a meticulous realisation of detail, the tactility of the hand-carved woodcut fittingly translates the complexities of Curtiss’ compositions, accentuating the conflicting tones, crisp outlines and the variety of textures characteristic of her paintings.
Julie Curtiss
Horse Chestnut
2023
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Louise Giovanelli
Tide
2024
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Louise Giovanelli
Prairie (green)
2024
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Produced in residency with Edition Copenhagen, Louise Giovanelli’s lithograph print, Tide (2024), depicts a closely cropped view of highly glossed, wavy hair. The work belongs to a series of paintings by Giovanelli which feature tight frames of wigs, continuing the artist’s interest in light and its relationship to texture. Here, light both accentuates and complicates its subject, allowing a knowingly figural detail to become metaphysical.
In Prairie (2024), a close portrait view partially abstracts lavish hanging green curtains which gather on the floor. Unable to see beyond the partition and with context ambiguous, Giovanelli’s curtains invite imaginative and associative thinking across its undulant surface.
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Released for the London Original Print Fair, Rachel Kneebone’s Medallion is a porcelain work that centres upon a smooth scrying orb framed by cascading ribbon-like folds and diminutive curls suggestive of roses. Intricately adorned, Kneebone’s medallions highlight the sculptor’s remarkable command of the fragile yet enduring medium for which she is known.
Every Medallion in the series of 25 is unique, and each serves as both a gesture of devotion and a keepsake to cherish.
Rachel Kneebone in the studio
Video: © White Cube (Clint Trofa)
Tracey Emin
The Wedding
2019
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It was all About Loving you was published under White Cube Charity Editions, produced in response to the escalation of conflict in Ukraine.
Depicted through a series of swift lines, a figure reclines alone in a state of longing and desire, apparently caught between despair and ecstasy. As with many of Emin’s other works, her prints have a diaristic aspect, and often reference events from the past.
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