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José Pedro Croft: Aquatints (October 2011- January 2012)

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"What I do in three dimensions is what I later put onto paper. I use cubes. I repeat the matrix that is already on the plate, this helps me to create volume. It is an elemental game of densities" (José Pedro Croft)

In 1990, Tristán Barbará welcomed José Pedro Croft (Oporto, 1957) to his workshop at the Ampurdán to make his first prints, a set of aquatints on handmade paper. Every year since then, Croft visits what can now be considered his studio to conceive new projects in which the creative effort and his integration with the atmosphere in the workshop is shown clearly in these powerful, simple and enigmatic works.

In the last twenty years, José Pedro Croft has developed some of the most important graphic work in recent decades, using a conceptual base as a starting point and his sculptural background as reference. The structure and chromatic investigation that feed his three-dimensional work is given a new dimension when materialized on paper.

With regard to colours, the artist says: “For me colour is density, from black to orange.”

José Pedro Croft's graphics have to be considered with the same interest and attention as his sculptural work. Even the smaller prints can be considered monumental. Furthermore, they respond to the logic of deconstruction-construction already presents in his sculptures.

Thus, talking about his work on paper, Croft says: “My work is open: I work with density, tension and the limits that fluctuate between doing an undoing.”

The series of prints we present was made in 2010. It is based on the re-using of plates already worked in previous series. These plates show traces and marks of other prints from earlier works, always in editions of 24.

About this series, Croft said: “When I finished I had the sensation I had arrived in a certain place and that I would like to know where the next station is.”

See the graphic artwork by José Pedro Croft

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