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A carved breakfast nook in the Style of 1950s American baroque, 2008
Ukiyo-e color woodcut on hosho paper (Panel A) and relief print in green ink (Panel B); diptychexpand_more
Highpoint Editions Archive, The Friends of Bruce B. Dayton Acquisition Fund and the Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fundexpand_more 2020.85.35a,b
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During his multiyear collaboration with Highpoint Editions, Santiago Cucullu designed a series of diptychs, each comprising an ukiyo-e–style color woodcut—a printmaking method of Japanese origin that builds images with multiple carved woodblocks—and a related, interpretive text printed as a single-color relief print. The diptych thus functions as an ekphrastic poem (in Greek, ekphrasis means “description”), an ancient rhetorical device exemplified by vivid, often dramatic, description of real or imagined scene, or more commonly, a work of art. Here, Cucullu also introduces the element of chance in juxtaposing unrelated imagery derived from architectural and decorative styles, film, literature, and cartoons, displacing them from their usual context to generate unexpected narratives and meanings.
Details
- Title
- A carved breakfast nook in the Style of 1950s American baroque
- Artist Life
- born 1969
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2020.85.35a,b
- Provenance
- Highpoint Editions, Minneapolis (publisher); sold to MIA, 2020.
- Curator Approved
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Copyright © Santiago Cucullu, published by Highpoint Editions