Despite the “new†media of photography, video and computers, the “old†medium of print has claimed a permanent place for itself on the international stage of artistic genres. It even has enjoyed a renaissance since the 1960s – in a way reconquered its lost dignity as it had been explicitly considered a mass medium – that has not only transcended the notion of affordable art but also stimulated a re-evaluation of the concepts of ‘original’ and ‘copy’.
The exhibition shows the development of printmaking in Switzerland since 1960 in nearly 80 works by 51 artists. The works are grouped according to technique and document developments from screen-printing to the experimental woodcut, engraving, lithograph and the involvement of the computer.
