Gráfica expandida en el cambio de milenio: Derivas gráficas en la obra de Lucian Freud, Kiki Smith y Thomas Kilpper

Abstract

This article explores the connections between printmaking and other disciplines of contemporary art through the chronological study of the work of three relevant artists of the turn of the millennium. His work broadens the conception of printmaking by questioning its technical/conceptual limits, evidencing an evolution of printmaking to an expanded terrain where borders are blurred and language is enriched. We will analyze the case of Lucian Freud and his non-mimetic link with painting in his particular review of traditional techniques, Kiki Smith and the expansion of her sculptural work with the body turned into a matrix, and the ground as a record of collective and individual memory in Thomas Kilpper's site specific woodcuts. Analyzing several of his most relevant works, we will try to show the drifts generated in his hybridization with other media, as well as delve into the conceptual and processual aspects of expanded printmaking.