WOUTER VANHAELEMEESCH RISOGRAPH
A limited edition risograph print by Belgian artist Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, specially created for the Chasing Posada! Rotland expositions held in both Detroit and Chicago. Signed and numbered in graphite.
edition of 20 | 17 x 12 1/2 inches | 2014
The drawings of Belgian artist Wouter Vanhaelemeesch (b. 1980) explicitly refer to the engravings of Renaissance-and Baroque-era Europe. Through strategies such as collage and recontextualization, his work attempts to let “history speak in its generality,” to explore its horizon, while commenting on it at the same time.
Vanhaelemeesch’s drawings frequently appear as LP covers, for his own imprint audioMER as well as Jozef van Wissem’s Incunabulum label. In the past he provided covers for some of van Wissem’s solo albums and more recently for his collaborations with Jim Jarmush, Smegma, James Blackshaw and United Bible Studies. Next to that he also provided LP covers for people like Robbie Basho, Jack Rose, Graveyards, Cian Nugent and Second Family Band.