Aida Tomescu

(Australia, Romania 30 Oct 1955– )

Title

Seria Unu IV

Year

1993

Media category

Materials used

lift ground aquatint, drypoint on steel, black ink on white Velin Arches 300 gsm paper

Edition

6/12

Dimensions

120.9 x 79.9cm sheet; 142.0 x 101.0 x 3.0cm frame

Signature & date

Signed and dated l.l.

Credit

Contemporary Collection Benefactors 1993

Accession number

561.1993

Copyright

Location

Not on display

Further information

Aida Tomescu worked on the four plates that form this suite at the same time, allowing her gestures to flow freely between them, thus uniting them as a whole.

"Overall the work evolved as a chain of experiences which opened up a space where structure and form grew out of the making of it. Although the drawing on each etching plate was self-contained there is an implicit serial relationship to the work. The layering that happened within each work opened the potential for the next. My concern was with the resonance within the spaces and with the openings of light. It was the stillness that opened up intriguing possibilities".
(Tomescu, 1998)

Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000

Bibliography (3)

Deborah Edwards, Daphne Wallace, Margo Neale, Victoria Lynn and Sandra Byron, Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales 1995, "Women Artists in the Contemporary Collection", Victoria Lynn, p13-15, Domain, 1995, 15, 27.

Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection 1998, Sydney, 1998, 155 (colour illus.). cat.no. 132

Margaret Marsh, Michelle Watts and Craig Malyon, A.R.T. 2 practice 2005, South Melbourne, 2005, 32 (illus.). illus.no. 2.14

Exhibition history (2)

Review - works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995

Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999