Other print releases followed, each further exploring the possibilities of how to blend and bend print mediums but it was the blowing up, for all to see, of the NFT world, that provided new territory for this artist to explore. Though this time around, the windows were more animated and purposefully divergent from one’s expectation of the medium. The result was a heavy screenprint, physical in its nature, visually dense in its layering, and again with these small but pronounced windows into another world. The utilisation of this effect was subtly applied, with the majority of the paper being masked by ink, as a seven colour screenprint was constructed upon it, using a combination of matte and gloss finishes, as well as super saturated overlapping colour. (Those familiar with holographic paper, will know how it has a rippling effect that eddies with the movement of white light across its surface, and how the spectrum of colours hidden within are gloriously revealed as the light diffracts upon the minutely indented texture of that surface). Holographic paper was selected - a paper which has a surface that appears animated, as it pans from side-to-side. One could argue the objective was to get the artworks off the flat paper - out of the flat screen - and to give them an essence of existence in more than two dimensions. It was a simple addition that really lifted those early prints, and a blending of print mediums that created something new and unique.įollowing on from this, VEXX experimented with special-effect papers, searching for other avenues to give his prints depth and movement. This gave the prints a new element of interest, as if small windows into another world had been added to the experience of the work. We achieved this by embellishing the giclées with screenprinted metallic inks, covering selected areas of the artwork. The giclée medium was a perfect solution for capturing the finesse of his work, and yet VEXX sought a way of adding tactility and dimension to the prints. His style is undeniably colourful and bold, almost primary in its appeal, yet the work is full of highly skilled nuance, his hand unmistakably present in the subtle blending of one extraordinary colour palette after another. When we started working with Vexx, his objective was simply to make prints of his art. It’s one of those artist/printer relationships that is not only exciting, because of that energy I mentioned in the opening paragraph, but also progressive, as VEXX is an artist always asking “what new thing can be done?”, both of himself and us. It’s been our pleasure to work with VEXX for over a year, producing a string of limited art editions, here in the White Duck Editions studio. Sold Out, I might add, and perhaps unsurprisingly, as VEXX is an artist full of excitement and enthusiasm, with abundant energy in his work, and his art is loved by his fans for, among other things, its playfulness and eye-popping use of colour. Blending Realities is a new art collection by Belgium-based artist VEXX.
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