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Details
- Date
- 1963
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour screenprint on cartridge paper
- Edition
- unnumbered proof from edition of 10
- Dimensions
- 26.5 x 33.7 cm image and sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil ".... - J Senbergs '63".
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2008
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 281.2008
- Copyright
- © Estate of Jan Senbergs/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Jan Senbergs
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About
This image was inspired by the architecture of Antoni Gaudí which Senbergs first saw in magazines and books. One of the most original architects of his time, Gaudí has remained a favourite.
"The first time I saw Gaudi was in an Italian architecture magazine. It had photographs – they were in black and white and looked terrifically dramatic. At that time I didn't really know what they were, but I was only interested in the images. I didn't really realize who he was … It was the ventilators and all those sculptural forms, the shapes on the top of the Casa Milà of Gaudi's apartment building in Barcelona. At that time I was always doing those strange tower forms. They just became real objects of interest and of course naturally, later on, I became more curious about him, and by the time I'd been overseas I'd learnt something about him and went and had a look at it. In a vague, indirect way there was some sort of awareness of a Gaudi form when I was doing this print."
[Hendrik Kolenberg, Jan Senbergs complete screenprints 1960-88, pg. 17]
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Jan Senbergs: from screenprints to painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Apr 2008–25 May 2008
Jan Senbergs: Observation/Imagination, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 18 Mar 2016–12 Jun 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Art Gallery of Ballarat, Outlines of Australian printmaking: prints of Australia from the last third of the 18th century until the present time, Ballarat, 1976. cat.no. 285; Collection of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Jan Senbergs: Complete screenprints 1960-88, Sydney, 2008, 17 (colour illus.). cat.no. 1
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Author Unknown, Christmas Exhibition (1963), Melbourne, 1963. cat.no. 48; NOTE: Impression unknown.
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