Philippe Vandenberg, etching (2) for Exil de Peintre

Exil de peintre, an artists' book with 64 etchings and a text by Flemish artist Philippe Vandenberg. For a year, Philippe Vandenberg worked on this series of etchings in the studio of master printer Henrie Hemelsoet. The contact with the graphic technique gave a new direction to Vandenberg's work. Where the artist uses destruction as a method in his painting, also in etching the 'failure' is often an opening to a new visual language. In the extended biting of the etching h-ground, a new line emerges. The etching technique, the artist's book as a laboratory.
Etching 34 consists of the combination of two etching plates, the first a vernis mou or soft ground etching, the second an open bite etching with spit bite aquatint, printed in two vatiations.
Exil de peintre was a creation of Philipe Vandenberg, Henri Hemelsoet and Rein Ergo and was published in a limited edition of 33 copies.




N L	Philippe Vandenberg, etching for Exil de Peintre, Ergo Pers, 2003 [printer's proof in sanguine by Henrie Hemelsoet, collection Ergo Pers]
	Exil de peintre, an artists' book with 64 etchings and a text by Flemish artist Philippe Vandenberg. For a year, Philippe Vandenberg worked on this series of etchings in the studio of master printer Henrie Hemelsoet. The contact with the graphic technique gave a new direction to Vandenberg's work. Where the artist uses destruction as a method in his painting, also in etching the 'failure' is often an opening to a new visual language. In the extended biting of the etching h-ground, a new line emerges. The etching technique, the artist's book as a laboratory. Etching 34 consists of the combination of two etching plates, the first a vernis mou or soft ground etching, the second an open bite etching with spit bite aquatint, printed in two vatiations. Exil de peintre was a creation of Philipe Vandenberg, Henri Hemelsoet and Rein Ergo and was published in a limited edition of 33 copies.
		Philippe Vandenberg, etching for Exil de Peintre, Ergo Pers, 2003 [printer's proof with soft ground etching and open bite etching and aquatint, by Henrie Hemelsoet]

	Etching 34 consists of the combination of two etching plates, the first a vernis mou or soft ground etching, the second an open bite etching with spit bite aquatint, printed in two colour variations. Red chalk or sanguine is a drawing chalk with pigments of a reddish colour (red, brown, orange, ochre...). The pigments were used in the cave art of Altamira. The ancient Greeks knew sinopia, which was later used mainly in preliminary studies for frescoes. Sanguine is the main colour in Exil de peintre, and also refers to the colour of dried blood.