Julie Mehretu
Epigraph, Damascus
2016
Medium
photogravure, etching, aquatint
Museum
Albertina
Acquisition
Acquisition
Year Of Acquisition
2016
Inventory Number
DG2016DL1/1-6
In her artistic practice, US-based artist Julie Mehretu (*1970) combines the abstract formal language of painterly gestures with political and social issues. Points of departure for Epigraph, Damascus are layered architectural drawings of buildings in Damascus, Syria. Columns, arches and porticoes, shown from multiple perspectives, are among the many depicted architectural details of the Syrian city. As part of a complex printing process, these architectural drawings were layered with Mehretu’s gestural brushstrokes.