In between
“The Swiss publisher Albert Skira (1904-1973) is renowned for elevating the illustrated art book to an art form in itself. Skira’s abiding preoccupation was colour reproduction, a process that he sought to both perfect and to bring to a wider public. The more laborious ‘tipped-in’ method of printing each image plate separately, and pasting it into place within the book, allowed Skira to achieve the truest colours possible. Senise’s 2013 work Entre (papel picado do Braque) encapsulates Skira’s effort in the form of shredded plates, taken from a monograph on George Braque. Enshrined in acrylic, the tangled shards distil Braque’s oeuvre into a palette that is as anonymous as it is distinct from others in this series. The world treasures and great master paintings that were the subject of Skira’s increasingly popular books of the 1950s and 1960s became known less as material facts and more as immaterial images.”
(excerpt from the text “The Matter of Fact”, by Isobel Whitelegg, at Galeria Nara Roesler NY in 2017)
