implicit art

Thomas Kilpper’s don’t look back at the impact festival biennale a few weeks ago, Berlin / Poznan

Local hero, Richard Kilpert (note similarity in name to Thomas Kilpper, artist shown), gave a talk about his great experiences at the Impact Printmaking festival/conference a few weeks ago. The conference, whose title and theme was ‘kontact,’ brought print specialists to, and between, Berlin, Germany and Poznan, Poland. His talk was for an hour yesterday afternoon at Wits, and this is one of Rich’s slides.

Thomas Kilpper’s don’t look back, 22 x 12 meters(!), is a (ridiculously) large-scale wood cut, produced by carving a relief image into a basketball court – just before the building was to be renovated. Approximately six pain-staking months were spent chipping away before Kilpper inked up and produced this beauty, above.

Richard Kilpert later gave me a ride to the airport (I’m blogging from the airport! Not a big deal to you first-worlders, but I am in Africa, baby!), on my way to Durban for Colleen Alborough’s opening – thanks, buddy. Zululand, here I come….