“The German Woodcut:
Christiane Baumgartner” celebrates the recent acquisition of Transall (2002), a
monumental woodcut by German printmaker Christiane Baumgartner. In her
contemporary depictions of motion and speed, Baumgartner combines the newest
and fastest means of reproduction (photography and video) with the oldest and
slowest (woodcut), fusing the precision of digital technology to the
traditional and the handmade. At 14 feet in length, Transall is among her most
ambitious works and a milestone of 21st-century printmaking.
The enormous image
of military cargo planes on a tarmac is based on a found photograph that
Baumgartner transferred to her woodblock and carved by hand over a period of 10
months. In addition to Transall, the exhibition presents four other woodcuts by
Baumgartner, including a four-part series capturing cars on the Autobahn as
they approach an overpass (Schkeuditz I-IV, 2005), and a depiction of Allied
bombers over Germany, based on a video still from a World War II documentary
(Trails I-II, 2008). Of special note is the portfolio 1 Sekunde (2004), a set
of 25 woodcuts that together represent a single second of video that
Baumgartner shot of a blurred wooded landscape captured from the open window of
a moving car.
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/the-german-woodcut-christiane-baumgartner
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