Kristian Krokfors - Prints

KRISTIAN KROKFORS PRINTS

The Beach Screenprint, 2010 Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm Edition of 40 Image: 76 x 56.5 cm (30 x 22 1/4 in)

The River Screenprint, 2010 Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm Edition of 40 Image: 76 x 56.5 cm (30 x 22 1/4 in)

Red Space - Blue Canal - Beach Scene Beach Houses - Moon and the Chimney - City Scene Etching, 2009-10. Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm in editions of 45 plus 5 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s proofs, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive proof.

Plates: 29.8 x 24 cm (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in)

City View 1 Etching, 2008.

Edition of 35 plus proofs Plates: 59.5 x 49.5cm (23 1/2 x 19 1/2 )

City View II Etching, 2008.

Edition of 35 plus proofs Plates: 59.5 x 49.5cm (23 1/2 x 19 1/2 )

Townscape Digital and Screenprint, 2007 An installation in sixteen par ts, mounted on aluminium.

Printed in an edition of 18 plus proofs Each panel: 59.2 x 39.5cm Total installation: 121.4 x 124.5cm

Routes and Recollections Digital and Screenprint, 2006 An installation in sixteen par ts, mounted on aluminium.

Printed in an edition of 12 plus proofs Total installation: 126 x 126 cm (47 1/2 x 48 3/4 inch)

Untitled Curve I & II Digital and Screenprint, 2005 Printed on Canvas in editions of 20 and stretched onto cur ved wooden suppor t.

Image sizes: 29.2 x 82.4 cm (11 1/2 x 32 1/2 inch)

Stretched view

Unstretched view

Untitled Digital and Screenprint, 2005 Printed on Canvas an edition of 16 and stretched onto cur ved wooden suppor t.

Image sizes: 48 x 126 cm (18 3/4 x 49 1/2 inch)

Town I & II Digital and Screenprint, 2004 Printed on Somerset Velvet Enhanced 330gsm Edition of 19 Image sizes: 58.6 x 44.5 cm (23 x 17 1/2 inch)

Habitation I & II Digital and Screenprint, 2004 Printed on Somerset Velvet Enhanced 330gsm Edition of 19 Image sizes:58.6 x 44.5 cm (23 x 17 1/2 inch)

Vertical Gardens I & II Screenprints, 2004 Printed on Somerset TP 300gsm Editions of 50 Image sizes: 60 x 44 cm (23 1/8 x 17 1/4 inch)

Faraway I & II Screenprints, 2001 Printed on Velin Arches blanc 400gsm Editions of 50 Image sizes: 102 x 72 cm (40 x 28 3/8 inch)

Coloured Peaks Red Peaks Screenprints, 2002 Printed on Somerset TP 300gsm Editions of 50 Image sizes: 35 x 69.5 cm (13 3/4 x 27 1/2 inch)

Coloured Andalucia Red Andalucia Screenprints, 1999 Printed on Somerset TP 300gsm Editions of 55 Image sizes: 40 x 80 cm (15 3/4 x 31 1/2 inch)

Trio Screenprint, 1997 Printed on Somerset TP 300gsm Editions of 15 Image size: 72.5 x 76 cm (28 1/5 x 29 7/8 inch)

Assembly II Range II Screenprints, 1997 Printed on Somerset TP 300gsm Editions of 15 Image sizes: 60.5 x 93 cm (23 3/4 x 36 5/8 inch)

Happy Factory, Memory, Tent, Treehouse, Perfect Day & Plan Screenprints, 1995 Printed on Somerset TP 300gsm Editions of 70 Image sizes: 18 x 18cm (7 1/8 x 7 1/8 inch)

City, Environment, Finale, Forest, Fountain & Garden Screenprints, 1995 Printed on Somerset TP 300gsm Editions of 70 Image sizes: 18 x 18cm (7 1/8 x 7 1/8 inch)

Still 2, Still 4 Screenprints, 1999 - 2000 Printed on Somerset Velvet Black 280gsm Editions of 20 Image size: 67 x 54cm (26 1/2 x 21 1/2 inch)

Utopia I Utopia II Screenprints, 1994 Editions of 50 Image sizes: 80 x 55.5 cm (31 1/2 x 21 5/8 inch)

Flight Screenprint, 1990 Printed on Somerset TP 300gsm Editions of 80 Image sizes: 95.9 x 62.9 cm (37 3/4 x 24 3/4 inch)

Roadside Screenprint, 1990 Printed on Somerset TP 300gsm Editions of 75 Image sizes: 95.9 x 62.9 cm (37 3/4 x 24 3/4 inch)

KRISTIAN KROKFORS b. 1952

Kristian Krokfors was born in Finland in 1952. From 1973-74 he studied Ar t at the University of Industrial Ar ts in Helsinki. In 1974 he moved to England to study at Leicester Polytechnic, where he received his BA in 1977.

From 1977-78 he completed the Advanced Printmaking Course at Croydon College of Ar t before returning to Helsinki, where he currently lives and works. In 1985 he received Finland’s Young Ar tist of the Year Award, a prestigious national event organised by the City of Tampere and the Tampere Ar t Museum.

Kristian Krokfors is an eminently serious artist. His works are in no sense didactic, but if you were to ask what they are “about”, the answer would spring unbidden, without any verbal prompting from him. Yes, the are, they must be, about the environment. They take as their evident, immediate subject the splendours and miseries of town planning

and

urbanism’s shaky relations with whatever belt of green it chooses to girdle itself with. They look at the dr yness of the desert, the acrid smoke that belches from factories, the wind that shakes the barley - or would, if there were any barley left to shake. . . . 1

1 Extract from exhibition catalogue: ‘Kristian Krokfors: Paintings and Works on Paper’. Foreword by John Russell Taylor Pratt Contemporar y, 2008

PRATT CONTEMPORARY, 2010