Art of Fugue

Medium:

Etching

Dimensions:

30" X 27"

Date:

2001

Description:

This unique series of prints was inspired by J.S. Bach's autographed original scores of the Art of Fugue. The original etchings on the Art of Fugue concerned a seven-pointed circle that evolved into a inner spiraled vortex. This was a formal graphic approach to the original theme BWV 1080, but it not develop into an edition. Something was missing the scores themselves! They were then printed over the etchings using an Epson digital inkjet plotter.

The etchings and text (Lydian) were printed on Somerset Velvet paper, the former by the artist at D-2 Press, and the latter by Edward Fausty who also printed the scores on the interleafing sheets. Hand-made mulberry paper called Yumei. The portfolio box was made by James DiMarcantonio at Hope Bindery

Art of Fugue: BWV 1080

Elizabeth Harington's colophonic interpretation of Bach's mighty Art of Fugue is a fascinating journey into the artist's mind and aesthetic sensibilities, both clearly formed by her remarkable history and artistic skills. The transformation of Bach's own autograph pages in circular lens like designs, each quite different, realizes in print-form an aspect of Bach's attempt to create symmetries in the structure of time. Harington is not concerned with the surface of appearances of the Fugues -- in Bach's language, their sound - but with their inner natures, the myriad relationships of their internal dimensions.
Kenneth Cooper - Harpsichordist

Art of Fugue

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