The research about photogravure of Jan Pettersson is now published.
I have for more than 30 years worked with and researched old photomechanical processes where my main focus has been especially photogravure or heliogravure on copper.
The photogravure process invented in the 19th century is a photomechanical process whereby a continuous tone image is etched into a copperplate & when printed produces the full range of greyscale from black to white.
The photogravure process is one of the most complex techniques concerning photomechanical processes within intaglio printmaking. This research consists of the further development of the media in a contemporary setting & an approach for the placement of the photogravure process & its technical/historical presence as a tool for contemporary mnemonic reenactment of a process.
AI is challenging our way of thinking; known technology has disappeared to resurface in another shape or content to again be re-contextualized and put into new art constellations.
What lies ahead for the photogravure medium can only be known to those who persist with the quest.
Jan Pettersson
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About the Author
Professor Emeritus Jan Pettersson, former head of the printmaking and drawing Department at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO).
Pettersson is an artist/printmaker/writer working with research and print projects. His current projects deal with the field of photography especially the objectivity of photography within the print media. This has been done through in-depth research within different areas through the development of art projects. His recent research takes on the interaction of when craft meets high technology and Mnemonic memories re-enacted within the expanded field of printmaking.
He has earlier published his research Printmaking in the Expanded Field 1st edition 2017 & 2nd edition 2019 at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). ” Photogravure an Archaeological Research” at Bergen National Academy of Art & Design (KHiB) 2007