Serie:
"Printmaking"
Etching and botanical prints
The printworks of Andrea Finck emerge from a process‑driven engagement with line, surface, and material. Etching and plant‑based printing are not treated as mere techniques but as means of making traces visible. In etching, every line is permanently bitten into the copper plate – nothing can be undone. This irreversible process shapes the character of the work. Aquatint creates fine tonal gradations and subtle chromatic nuances; grain and density arise in the acid bath, not through painterly application.
Fragment and uncovering
The plant prints follow a similarly material‑driven process. Leaves, stems, and structures leave their own traces – often finer and less predictable than a drawn line. Etching and plant printing combine into a working method that aims less at depiction than at making trace and contact visible. Many prints appear as if uncovered. Fragments, forms, and echoes of older visual worlds emerge without being narrated or explained. The motifs seem to surface from layers – part of a process that makes time and change perceptible.
The works arise between deliberate mark and material reaction: not illustration, but a condensation of line, grain, imprint, and what becomes visible in the act of making.
Egypt Affairs I
33 x 43 cm, framed
Aquatinta
This orange‑toned etching follows closely the ancient Egyptian relief on which it is based. The scene of the crown offering by Ptolemy XII, the father of Cleopatra, retains its formal clarity and is only gently translated into a contemporary visual language. The work preserves the historical gesture while making it newly legible.
Akrotiri, blue
33 x 43 cm, framed
Aquatinta
This etching refers to a Bronze Age fresco from Akrotiri on Santorini, taken from the so‑called “House of the Monkeys.” Characteristic movements and ornamental structures are translated into a reduced, contemporary visual language. As an archaeologically informed work, it connects historical imagery with a free graphic interpretation, allowing a fragment of the past to reappear in a new form.
