Nick Veasey Limited Edition Prints

Provocative and captivating screenprints are now being produced here at Radar Studio. An intriguing yet disturbing X-ray study of an M4 assault rifle - the standard issue battle weapon of the US Army is available as a limited edition silkscreen print. 

The piece, entitled "The Beauty of Death' is embellished with blood effect paint and the silkscreening process entails that each print in the edition of 25 is unique. The silkscreen is hand printed with metallic silver inks at Nick Veasey’s studio onto Fabriano paper at size 70 x 100cm (27.5 x 39.4”).

The M4 is carried by the US Army in combat zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan and its immediately recognisable design has become an icon of military might mirroring foreign policy. The Marine Corps motto is  "Every Marine is a rifleman." and the M4 is their trusted comrade. In the field, you had better not be caught without your rifle!

Despite being designed to kill and maim the X-ray elicits the elegant and functional mechanisms of the gun: a magazine full of surprisingly small bullets; a long hollow barrell protected by a sculpted, heat-proof foregrip; the intricate lenses and optics of the gunsight. The viewer can appreciate the rifle as a purely functional, precision-machined object yet the stark symbolism and menace the image conveys is potent. The expressionistic sprays of crimson ink accentuate this menace and are a chaotic counterpoint to the regular linear steel forms of the gun.

Priced at GBP £350 / USD $500 / EURO €400 each print is signed and numbered in pencil, and comes with a certificate of authenticity and artist label.

We will be releasing more screen prints and other hand made art works in the future.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Camera-less Photography

As part of the Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibition on camera-less photography Shadowcatchers, a piece by Nick entitled Puffa Jacket is displayed in the photography gallery alongside representative works which demonstrate key works in the history of the medium. 

Since the inception of photography, artists and image-makers have experimented with photograms, chemical, plate and film manipulations and the Shadowcatchers main exhibit celebrates five contemporary exponents, each whose work is unique in its own right. The five artists are: Floris Neusüss (b. 1937), Pierre Cordier(b. 1933), Garry Fabian Miller (b. 1957), Susan Derges (b.1955) and Adam Fuss (b. 1961). Puffa Jacket is aside from the main exhibit which is mounted adjacent to the main entrance hall. If you seek out room 38a on the ground floor the piece is exhibited as the most recent example of British contemporary, camera-less photography.

The team at Radar Studio enjoyed a day out to the V&A, where they enjoyed the Shadowcatchers exhibit as well as the satisfaction of seeing the Puffa Jacket piece mounted and displayed alongside other fascinating works.

Shadowcatchers will be running at the Victoria and Albert Museum until the 20th of February 2011. 

Art with Swiss Precision

You can see the healthy turnout and audience reaction to the arrival of X-ray art pieces at Dubinsky Fine Arts in Zurich. Thomas Dubinsky had meticulously planned a fine display of Veasey originals and much appreciation, wonder and discussion was generated by the works exhibited. The setting was perfect and anyone looking for a rewarding experience of thought-provoking X-ray studies should waste no time and proceed directly to Dubinsky Fine Arts.

Seestrasse 51
8702 Zollikon/Zurich
Switzerland
t: +41 44 201 7017
thomas@dubinsky.com
www.dubinsky.com

X-ray Exhibition at Dubinsky Fine Arts, Zurich

The fine  city of Zurich is now the location for the first exhibition of Nick's X-ray art in Switzerland at Dubinsky Fine Arts in Zollikon, Zurich. 

Nick attended the private view on September 9th and is grateful to Thomas Dubinsky and the people at Dubinsky Fine Arts for mounting a spectacular show which had a fantastic turnout. 

The exhibition runs from September the 10th to November 20th, 2010 and the address of the perfectly proportioned gallery of Dubinsky Fine Arts is:


Seestrasse 51
8702 Zollikon/Zurich
Switzerland
t: +41 44 201 7017
thomas@dubinsky.com
www.dubinsky.com

Nick Veasey: Exposing the invisible

Nick gave an informative speech to the prestigious TED Conference in Oxford in the summer of 2009.

You can see more films and movies about Nick's work on his new YouTube channel - TheXrayLab, see link in the sidebar.

Ich bin ein Berliner

Here are a few pictures from the evening of the private view of the exhibition at 21galleries in Berlin. A number of media outlets covered the exhibition and you can see a feature here. The Berlin public have been flocking to the exhibition which is being run in collaboration with Udo Walz until July the 31st. You can see it at:

21 galleries
Fasanenstrasse 37, 10719 Berlin

Germany

Berlin Bound

We have just carefully loaded a consignment of the X-ray diasecs - or should that be Roentgen diasecs - for shipping to the amazing city of Berlin where they will be exhibited at 21galleries in Charlottenberg.  

There are a number of marine and oceanic images that were presented in editions in the  exhibition at Knokke in Belgium and were such a hit by the seaside there as well as award-winning editions such as Kylie's Knickers and the A0 edition of the Mini which is represented on the poster announcing the exhibition.

The show X-ray -  Die Schönheit des Verborgenen begins on the 27th of May and runs right through until the end of July at 21galleries by Udo Walz, Fasanenstrasse 37, 10719 Berlin.