DAY TWO

Description

LOUIS REITH – Day Two

Screen print, 5 layers
50 x 70 cm, 2025
Old Mill white paper, 300g.

LIMITED EDITION OF 30

Signed and numbered by the artist.
Produced by Varsi Lab,  January 2025

Artist info

Louis Reith

Dutch artist Louis Reith is known for his monochrome mystical landscape constructions and Modernist-inspired geometrics. Influenced by architectural composition and reminiscent of the Bauhaus movement, who incorporated spirituality as part of their aesthetic process, Reith’s artist hand is subtly evident in a multimedia process that is both meticulous and delicate, as seen in his fine ink drawings, collaged shapes and re-valued images. Through an early journey as a graphic designer in Belgium Reith developed a love for printed matter and, in his time with Flemish artists, an understanding of the lyrical craft in arts; the functional aesthetic and the sensitive narrative. This merging of elements informs his approach to the technical aspects of form and the mythical qualities of the handmade. Since 2013 Reith has owned Jordskred, a publishing platform with which he joined the Dutch Independent Art Book Publishers (DIABP) collective in 2017. He is also co-organiser and designer at Grafixx, an annual festival for graphic arts in Antwerp, Belgium, and a permanent lecturer at AKI Academy of Art and Design in Enschede, The Netherlands.

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Although Louis Reith is mainly known for his monochrome works, where pages from vintage books and his modernist-inspired geometrics function as portal to imaginary times, Day One, – Two, andThree is a series of screen prints where the artist further explores a current interest in the use of color.

Yet, even in color, the artist tries to accomplish unusual yet familiar results. In his previous Riso publication, Phasing Consequence Reith worked mainly with custom-made inks, and for a special edition he created a bootleg, printed with black, grey, and white ink on white, grey and black paper as a way to mislead the viewer and let it question the used material.

For this screen print series with Varsi, the artist used found photos of Mt. Murō to create textures and gradients within the hard-edge compositions, not to achieve recognition and smooth colour transitions, but rather to emphasise atmospheres in abstraction.

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