Confrontation

One of the most important painters on the French scene today, Marc Desgrandchamps, who has been working at Michael Woolworth's workshop since 2002, wanted to make the largest possible image in stone lithography, and to work in colour, which he had just begun to explore in printmaking. Playing with the notions of opacity and transparency, ghosts and shadows, the image Confrontation, produced in seven colours, was particularly challenging since Michael works exclusively on hand presses. This image was linked to the artist's research for Fragments, an ambitious artist's book produced at the workshop during the same period.