ODE TO LITHOGRAPHY

• Main Author: Arazzi, Aurora
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/47138
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The experience of working on lithography practice for more than three years, my interest for lithography has been grown and also the processes in it. The difficult execution, complicated technicalities and the need for perseverance and patience, are challenges and excitement at once for me everytime I do it. Lithography become my routine that I’m working on everyday, over and over, so that the elements of this technique merges into my daily life as a printmaker. The lack of materials and tools for working on lithography make this technique very difficult to find and to practice in. The position or status of printmaking is displaced by new media art expressions (installation and performance) also the new media with their sophisticated technology, it can offer more stimulating aesthetic values. Because of that, the printmakers are challenged to criticize and respond to these conditions so that the existence of printmaking costantly exist, evolve and able to contribute in art scene in Indonesia which is increasingly dynamic and progressive. Through this final project, I want to present the lithography work with the different physical form, to find the alternative final form of prints by adding cut-out and folding process so that produce a new physicality in the final result of lithography into sculptural-printmaking. There’s some tools that I want to duplicate, they are the essentials tools in the llithopgraphy process such as limestone, levigator, dermatograph pencils, putty knife, arpus, talc, magnesium, sponge, paint cans, roll, ruler, masking tape, cutting mat, etc. This work presents lithography in a meta form (self-referential) where the duplications of the lithopgrahy tools in this work are made by the lithography technique itself. This work is an attempt by me as printmaker to introduce lithography in contemporary art expressions today, where this work is no longer bound by its established conventions. The aesthetic decision was chosen according to my idea and I think this format is suitable for my idea about lithography including objects, process and result in one whole work.