Dreamy Etchings

The exhibition presents a selection of graphic artworks from BORCH Editions’ extensive archive and introduces the workshop’s long-standing collaboration with significant contemporary artists such as Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967), Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997), Toni Larsen (b. 1955), Iñaki Bonillas (b. 1981), Nanna Debois Buhl (b. 1975), Clay Ketter (b. 1961), Virginia Overton (b. 1979) and John Zurier (b. 1956).

A few years ago, Københavns Kunsthandel presented an exhibition in collaboration with the Den Danske Radeerforening, focusing on etchings from the association’s long history. The collaboration with BORCH Editions continues and expands this work with graphic art.

Københavns Kunsthandel has curated the exhibition based on BORCH Editions’ extensive archive, with a focus on the dreamy and painterly. Through the selection of works with an abstract or timeless character, the exhibition introduces a range of graphic techniques, ranging from photogravure, various etching techniques to blind embossing and monotype.

Dreamy Etchings examines the poetic and experimental potential of the graphic medium through the meeting of the printing plate with the soft paper and the refined craftsmanship inherent therein.

BORCH Editions produces and publishes original graphics. The workshop was founded in Copenhagen in 1979 by Niels Borch Jensen. The printing is always carried out in the workshop in a close collaborative process between the artist and the workshop’s permanent printers Julie Dam, Thomas Castenschiold Dehlholm, Tom Jennions and Mette Ulstrup. The collaboration often continues over many years, which gives the artists the opportunity to explore the different properties of the graphic techniques in relation to their other practices.

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Københavns Kunsthandel