Artist:
Hendrik Jonas
Title:A Long Goodbye
Medium:Lithograph & Screenprint
Image size (cm) h x w: 28 x 28cm
Edition size: 20
When Edinburgh Printmakers invited me to take part in the Lithography Portfolio I was about to leave the country and go back to Germany.
In the last few years my work dealt with the question of identity/origin and belonging and I tried to express it in what I called ‘landscape-paintings’. The memories of my childhood are vague and unclear, corrupted by photographs and ‘family stories’ at Christmas time. I mainly see myself playing in a forest. The darkness within this place and the fact that I couldn’t tell a single complete story about this boy who’s carrying my name makes the colour black a vital element in my work. I use many layers of thin oil paint, drowned in linseed oil, which I apply over a long period of time according to the many, inaccurate pictures I get when I try to think back. For the same reason, putting many ‘images’ together to get a whole, I often work in series, like the tryptich I [intend to] am showing with this lithography.
‘A long
goodbye’ is similarly dealing with memories of feelings and experiences
I made in Scotland but it’s more recent and less vague.
I used the technical possibilities of lithography to print one image
on top of the other, with the first layer still visible but almost fading
away. Many things happened to me between arriving and leaving Scotland
and I wanted the final layers of that print to be fresh and friendly
to give it a positive impression [, in a way, it’s a love declaration
to my friends.
C.V.
born 1966 Birkenfeld, Germany
1990-1992
studied Graphik Design and Illustration in Augsburg, Germany
1992-1993 Printmaking, University of Barcelona/Fine Arts
1993-1995 Graphik Design, Printmaking, Illustration, FH Augsburg, diploma
1995 moved to Berlin, working as freelance Painter andPrintmaker
joined BBK, German Artists Union
1995-1997 Illustrated Atlas of Human Anatomy
1997 Co-founder of 4 Man Artist Group ‘Cyan’
1997-1999 Worked as an Illustrator for ‘Berliner Zeitung’,
‘Zitty Magazin’, etc.
1999 moved to Edinburgh
1999-2002 Freelance Illustrator for ‘The Guardian’, ‘Time
Magazine’, etc.
joined WASPS Studios, Edinburgh
Sept. 2002 Moved to Berlin
Group
and Solo Exhibitions
2003 Edinburgh Printmakers, Lithography Portfolio
2002 ’Art in the kitchen’, Group Show, ‘The Commissary’,
Edinburgh
‘Guardian’ Visitors Center, London, t Exhibition of IllustrationWork
‘a table’, Edinburgh, forest paintings
2001 AAS, Aberdeen
Two Man Show in Patriothall, Edinburgh, forest paintings
2000 AAS, Aberdeen
Solo Show, Patriothall, Edinburgh, paintings and prints
Festival Show Patriothall
1998 ’Latte’, Museum for Modern Art, Mecklenburg, paintings
and sculpture
1997 Studio Show Cyan’, Kollwitz, Berlin
1994 Ecke Gallerie, Augsburg, Group Show
First Price BBK, German Artists Union