" We are each of us identical in that we are, each of us, unique
and the search for that uniqueness is life's journey,
its discovery is the revelation of that facet of existence
reserved exclusively for us."
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THE IMAGE
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Title - Under Construction (2005)
Artist - Dominic Rouse (1959)
"Duchamp and Dali present a spectacle of perversion, where things and images are subjected to an endless crisis of interpretations and critical openings. Rouse follows the same path, using the unknown possibilities - the chance associations of subjects and objects - in a paranoid-libidinal perspective that spans the irrational and the oneiric. He seizes events and phenomena and manipulates them. He subjects them to a law of imaginary representation, one capable of forming an erotic and macabre labyrinth." (Aasim Akhtar - The Friday Times, Vol. XXIII No. 42)
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THE PRINT
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A hand-made, toned silver gelatin darkroom print from a digitally composed 10" x 8" negative printed on Ilford warmtone semi-matt paper. The toner used is thiocarbamide which gives the print its beautiful warm tones and also increases the archival qualities of the print by removing most of the silver-halides from the emulsion layer.
Print - Thio toned Gelatin Silver
Paper - Ilford FB baryta coated fibre base semi-matt warmtone double weight (255gsm)
Paper Size - 75" x 42" (190 x 106 cm)
Image Size - 56" x 38" (142 x 96 cm)
Edition - #1/4
Image Date - October 2005
Print Date - October 2007
Catalogue - DHR050BW
Condition - Excellent. There is some very minor "foxing" (yellowing) at the edge of the paper on one side which does not affect the image area.
Print signed & numbered in pencil front lower right.
Annotations & numbered artist stamp at front lower left.
Numbered Blind Stamp lower front lower right.
PLEASE NOTE - the print on offer is an unframed, unmounted toned gelatin silver print edition number 1/4. All the listing pictures are unretouched photographs of the actual print for sale, with the exception of the introductory uncropped image.
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THE ARTIST
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Dominic Rouse would be the first to admit that his use of the camera and the darkroom are unusual. Photography as a wide and varied community of folks is a very big tent indeed and his corner of photography has few fellow travellers. Contemporarily Jerry Uelsmann comes to mind. But when I think of his work I think more of the painters Bruegel, Hieronymus Bosch and René Magritte. Rouse does not photograph the world he makes photographs of his mind. Looking at his images is a profoundly different experience than looking at, say, an Ansel Adams photograph. With Adams one prepares for his photographs by reading John Muir. With Rouse one prepares by reading Lewis Carroll, or even Freud.
His images are challenging because the questions he asks in his images are challenging themselves. In my interview with him he quotes Picasso who said that computers are useless because they only give you answers. Rouse's photographs pose far more questions than they answer and I suspect that is precisely his intention.
(Brooks Jensen - LensWork Publishing, 2007)
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MISSION STATEMENT
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The aim of ART + GRAFT Gallery Editions is to provide collectors of fine art photography with superbly crafted photographic art at a fair and reasonable price.
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CUSTOMER FEEDBACK
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SHIPPING
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Worldwide shipping using International Expedited Mail Service. Packages take between 4-7 days to get to USA and Europe. This print ships rolled in a large 'indestructible' PVC tube.
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PAYMENT
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REFUNDS
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price.
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