Fad magazine : THE IFPDA PRINT FAIR 2024 – HIGHLIGHTS (by Mark Westall)

The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair opens to the public tomorrow
February 16th running through to 18th, 2024 (VIPs 15th February).

Etel Adnan, Galerie Lelong & Co

Leading international print galleries, publishers, workshops and dealers will present fine art prints across techniques and periods, from Old Masters and 20th-century icons to established contemporary artists and today’s most exciting emerging voices.

Ruth Asawa, Plane Tree Reversal (TAM.1470A), 1965. Artwork © 2024 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner

Returning for a third year, David Zwirner will highlight important prints and works on paper by Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Toba Khedoori, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha. Additionally, Zwirner will feature a focused selection of editions by Vija Celmins which showcase the artist’s meticulous serial explorations of natural phenomena, including the ocean, desert, and night sky.

George Condo, Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth will offer newly editioned prints by Rita Ackermann, George Condo, and Amy Sherald, and earlier works by Ida Applebroog, Louise Bourgeois, and David Smith.

Albrecht Dürer, David Tunick, Inc

Edvard Munch, David Tunick, Inc

David Tunick, Inc. will exhibit a range of highly sought-after prints—including Titian’s monumental woodcut, The Submersion of the Pharaoh’s Army in the Red Sea (4 ft. x 8 ft.), one of the largest and rarest Old Master prints ever made. Tunick will also be presenting two art historical icons, Edvard Munch’s Madonna and Albrecht Dürer’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, each in starkly different versions, providing an exceptional experience in connoisseurship at the topmost level through side-by-side comparisons.

Otto Lange, Worthington Gallery

Worthington Gallery will present a range of works by Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz (the latter artist will soon be celebrated with a solo exhibition at the MoMA, opening March 31). The gallery will also offer works by Wassily Kandinsky, Erich Heckel, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Lange, Gabrielle Münter, and Paul Klee.

Dox Thrash, Susan Teller Gallery

Susan Teller Gallery will feature several works by celebrated African-American artists like Lawrence Jones, Vernon Poindexter, William E. Smith, and Dox Thrash, alongside American Modernists Thomas Hart Benton and Ben Shahn. Childs Gallery will present prints by Paul Cadmus, Francisco Goya, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Rembrandt, and Whistler. Galerie Lelong will present modern and contemporary prints by Etel Adnan, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Jean Debuffet, and Donald Judd.

Krakow Witkin Gallery will present a group booth featuring recent multi-media creations by Sarah Sze and Kay Rosen, a 1944 woodcut made by Josef Albers while teaching at Black Mountain College; and Mel Bochner’s rare Rules of Inference (1974), one of the first large-scale monochromatic aquatint etchings ever made. It took much experimentation on the artist’s part and then proceeded to pave the way for many other artists’ use of the technique.

William Kentridge, Mike Karstens

German gallerist Mike Karstens will offer works by Shilpa Gupta, William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Yoko Ono, Gerhard Richter, Kiki Smith, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, and Rosemarie Trockel in a limited edition portfolio published by Art-19 to benefit Amnesty International. The name Art 19 comes from an abbreviation of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which provides: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression”. The artists are contributing 100% of their fees to the cause and Kiki Smith and Emilia Kabakov will be presenting a public program at the fair on Sunday, February 17th at noon.

Pablo Picasso, John Szoke Gallery

This year the fair counts several solo presentations unveiling how artists have experimented with printmaking over decades, including F.L. Braswell Fine Art presenting a solo booth of works by Joan Mitchell spanning her entire career from 1959 to 1992; Fredric Snitzer Gallery showcasing a solo presentation of works by Hernan Bas featuring never-before-seen pieces from the artist’s personal archive, John Szoke Gallery, exhibiting a focused presentation of work by Pablo Picasso, Tandem Press with new large scale editions from Judy Pfaff, and invitational exhibitor Maya Froedman Gallery with a new body of work, Everything is Liquid, from twins, Mike and Doug Starn.

Special Projects

To raise funds for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Art Biennale, commissioners Portland Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe, in partnership with Sotheby’s and Sharon Coplan Hurowitz, the Print Fair will present a new editioned blanket by Jeffrey Gibson. All proceeds from sales will go toward covering the costs of Gibson’s presentation in Venice. Gibson is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent. For First Nations people, blankets hold deep meaning as part of traditions linked to culture, birth, life, and death, and as part of blanketing ceremonies commemorating significant milestones.

William Kentridge, 2022. The Old Gods Have Retired. Photogravure, sugarlift aquatint, direct gravure drypoint and chine with hand painting. Ed. of 20. 175 x 210cm

South African artist William Kentridge will present two monumental works comprised of collaged intaglio etchings with Johannesburg and New York-based print studio and publisher David Krut Projects, which has been collaborating with the artist since 1992. Printmaking is a pivotal part of Kentridge’s varied artistic practice, noted for exploring history, colonialism, and the legacy of apartheid. The two prints in the presentation, from the series The Old Gods Have Retired and The Flood, form epic landscapes that comment on power, trade, migration and more. The Old Gods Have Retired, is notable for being one of Kentridge’s first experiments with the ‘coffee lift’ etching process, a newer sustainable technique where coffee liquid is painted directly onto an etching plate.

This year, the Print Fair introduces a new special project Collector Focus, presenting a curated selection of works from notable private print collections. The inaugural iteration showcases works by Leonardo Drew and artists he selected—Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu, and Matthew Day Jackson—from Jordan Schnitzer and his Family Foundation collections.

Introducing Spotlight

Howard Hodgkin; Fresh Fruit Crumble, 2015 – 16 Sugar-lift aquatint with hand-colouring Paper and Image: 36 x 42 cm Edition of 30, Cristea Roberts

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