Manfred Egger
At a certain moment in my printmaking career I developed the impression that in times of highly sophisticated methods of re-production simply making “copies” can no longer be the main aim of printmaking, in my case the technique of woodblock printing. Instead I started mainly doing originals only (rarely I still do editions); that is to say that I start off with a certain number of blocks, which I then re-work in the course of the printing-process. I combine them with each other, I introduce new blocks, thereby change the material used for printing in various ways, and so in the end create series of similar, related but never identical prints. The end product then is the series as such, not an edition of one of the prints of the series.
Lifelines, woodblock print, 40 x 60cm, 2023
