IKARISCHE LANDSCHAFT 6/6 - Limited Edition of 6 Print

The basic graphic idea of this print series is that of image manipulation and the associated critical questioning of the visible: To what extent can a new visibility in the midst of the virtualized visible rediscover the artistically "invisible"? The title alludes to the myth of Icarus: Icarus, who despite his father Daedalus' warning, comes too close to the sun that melts the wax of his wings and Icarus ultimately paid for his devilment with his life. In these works, Osnowski seems to react to modern automatisms of "digital vision" by trying to confront the viewer with this virtualization of image vision. The blurring creates image spaces that irritate the gaze and challenge and activate the cognitive system. Osnowski suggests to the viewer a landscape that dissolves, fades or falls, and that the motif can only be recognized in vague and vague outlines. Therefore he uses the possibilities of the woodcut technique in very different ways. As already known from his previous works, he consistently cuts linear codes in different grid sequences manually into the wood: Horizontal and vertical lines in precise, constant intervals form the basic graphic structure. The final print is made by hand, only with a simple glass lens.This is a unique print in light cyan and dark violet.