Celebrating Print Magazine

06/12/2022

We're sad to announce the passing of Czech artist Eduard Ovcacek - painter, printmaker, a pioneer of letterism and a creator of visual poetry in the former Czechoslovakia. He died yesterday. In 2015, our Editor in Chief, Katerina Kyselica, interviewed Mr Ovcacek in his studio in Ostrava, and we invite you to read their conversation featured on our website. It's a great loss for the Central European cultural scene. R.I.P., Eduard Ovcacek (1933-2022).

Interview with Czech letterist, artist Eduard Ovcacek.

29/06/2022

“Lines”, 1995, screen print. By Czech painter, sculptor, and printmaker Zdenek Sykora (1929-2011).

13/03/2022

Repost from , Ukrainian artist.
..detail of my linocut "In the way", 2015, linocut, 21x29 cm

14/02/2022

Love conquers all! Happy Valentine's Day with Yuri Nozdrin's joyful print.🥰

16/09/2020

Michal Gabriel, “Scouts”, screen print. Scouting the unknown. from

31/08/2020

Shipped this beautiful Issue No.3 today to 🇧🇪 Belgium. It’s a fabulous edition of our magazine, also featuring a thorough review of the prominent Slovak artist Vladimir Gazovic who has perfected the art of scraped lithography. Read an excerpt of the review by art historian Eva Trojanova, online on our website on READ page. Or, just buy it, the reproductions are fabulous! Shipping worldwide.

30/07/2020

Radoslava Hrabovska's tender monotype, "My sons," from 2014. Selected for the 2014 Celebrating Print Exhibition in . Radoslava, an illustrator, printmaker and painter, on her print: "’My sons’ expresses my recent state of mind as mother. An image of my children and the lack of food on their plates are a reflection of hard times we have been through as family. It is a portrait and my own testimony of a mother. It reflects the everyday joys and concerns through the prism of feelings and perceptions. I intentionally use only black and white, showing the true color of my emotions. Gentleness of my maternal instincts and my sentiment are reflected in the line drawing, and the despair I felt in the black spots and their hard expression. Monotype was the ideal means to deliver the desired expressions, as it meets the attributes and truthfulness of my confession.”

28/07/2020

Virtuosic color woodcut by Stefan Galic, "Fossile – KOC- ###," 1995, photo Jaka Babnik. Featured in our first print issue, in "Slovenian Printmaking: Journey Through Six Decades" written by curator Breda Skrjanec: https://bit.ly/3f9srWI. As Breda explains, "In the 1980s, printmaking in Slovenia received new impetus from postmodernism, although the beginning of the decade did not look so promising. The spirit of the postmodern age, evident in subject matter linked to archaism, history, expressiveness and nationality, also found expression in printmaking. Lithography and woodcut became the techniques of choice. The general trend in the arts of the era became translated into the expressive, unfettered lithographs, woodcuts and linocuts of Klavdij Tutta; the boldly expressive works of Janez Matelic; and THE VIRTUOSIC COLOR WOODCUTS OF STEFAN GALIC."

12/04/2020

Czech artist Karel Demel (b. 1942) is one of the very few artists who have mastered the craft of engraving. This is one of his gourgeous works, entitled “Atelier.” (swipe for detail image)

22/03/2020

“The Living Tree” by Slovak artist Kamila Stanclova. Etching, 1996. Stanclova’s prints exemplify many of the characteristics that we have come to think of as defining the Central European graphic tradition: the mastery of the plate, the connection to book illustration, the critical stance of the artist towards social or political realities mediated through sly humor, fantasy and sheer visual dazzle.

20/03/2020

“Confrontation” by Jiří Anderle, 1976, drypoint, roulette. Czech artist Jiří Anderle (b.1936) is a masterful draftsman. His work, with prints typically executed in drypoint in combination with roulette, forms closed complexes that capture moments of human existence.

19/03/2020

“In Line” by Jindrich Pilecek (1944-2002).