PRINT-PAINTINGS

the first phase of my work in art, painting 1973-75, in my own technique, psychedelic, spectral

the Fantastic rises up out of Chaos

by Wis - Wieslaw Sadurski

Icarus
print-painting 50x35 cm

Lonely
print-painting 50x35 cm

Meeting 4
print-painting 50x35 cm

Two gravitation's
print-painting 50 x 35 cm

After many thousands of Monotypes, my own graphic technique emerged. I called it Print-Painting.
My atelier became a wonderful factory. Three special rollers created on my order, soft and heavy.
I find it difficult to explain the way of creating these delicate colourful paintings. You see here final stage in my three years long journey filled with work and discoveries.
I cut my figures and forms out of paper, plastic sheet, threads, creating a kind of relief matrix glued on paper, 'drawing' on it with knife, and 'painting' with glue.
Next phase - a sheet of paper on the top of my 'composition', frame and handles keeping it all together, and I was rolling my roller, wet with colours.
An additional colour was added to the painting per day, enabling me to make copies - each one in different colours.
Fluorescent graphic paints, print or copper print colours, mixed with varnish for a transparency effect.
Nobody had seen anything like it before. I created 2 to 8 copies of every single composition.

Planet dreams
print-painting 100 x 70 cm

Lines
print-painting 50 x 35 cm

Fellow Tantra 2
print-painting 50 x 35 cm

All the print-painting period took three years. Late summer 1975 I was again in Stockholm.

Catastrophe in November. The end and a new beginning.
Hung the papers up to dry, put some on the floor, which meant that I had to walk between them on all fours - standing up, I hit my backbone against the sharp corner of the table and fell down on my face. Spent four weeks in bed. Goodbye Print-Paintings !
One month later I was able to walk again but my back was still painful, I could not even hold a cup of tea in my hand. Goodbye my rollers ! Forever !

Fortunately for me - and you! - the brush was light ! Painting season started.
This was to be my destiny - the date was 8th of December 1975.