During her residency at Gate 44, the artist Olympe Racana-Weiler focused on a series of works on paper combining large-scale monotype silkscreens and woodcuts, deeply immersed in the process of self-discovery through image-making while adopting new technical solutions and aesthetic directions.

The work of Racana-Weiler is the result of a bodily process, gestures are the result of a movement given by the body that acts on the support (canvas, paper etc.). Indeed her artworks show an ongoing relationship between body and living matter, they show the result of an evolving process and are characterised by vibrant and bright colors that recall the redundant and scenographic baroque style. The relation with the raw matter and the importance of the process are elements extremely linked to artisanal production. Her xylography is, for example, a manifestation of the gesture that becomes an engraved sign, a muscular approach that penetrates and dissolves into the matter. As the artist affirmed in a conversation with Jim Dine: “my painting is like a living body but it’s not representational.”

Silkscreen & woodcut on Hahnemühle natural white 350 g/m, paper
Print size 106 x 146 cm
Unique exemplary
Signed by the artist
2023
Price: 4 500 €

COSMIC WOOD

Woodcut printing on Hahnemühle paper 350 g/m²
145×106 cm (paper) 
138×98 cm (plate)
2023
Price: 1 600 €

LES MURS DU TEMPLE

Woodcut printing on Hahnemühle paper 350 g/m²
145×106 cm (paper) 
138×98 cm (plate)
2023
Price: 1 600 €

EL KIOSKO 

Woodcut printing on Hahnemühle paper 350 g/m²
145×106 cm (paper) 
138×98 cm (plate)
2023
Price: 1 150 €