RUTH CAMPAU
Ruth Campau goes beyond the boundaries of traditional painting in her artistic practice. She takes distance from the two-dimensional format of the canvas toward more spatial, installational formats, experimenting with a whole range of materials. Campau refers to her work surface as potentially infinite while she endlessly repeats the same brush stroke with the objective of documenting her presence.
The Elegance of a Gesture
With a steady hand, Ruth Campau communicates the seductive qualities of the materials she is using. Her gesture can be compared to that of a gymnast for its elegance and ease. However, a look behind the scenes would reveal Sisyphean labour. Campau’s every move is a trial of the body’s movement and it’s imperfection. The physical effort is put into making meters long panels that are then cut and formed into a composition of geometrical or colourful patterns by the artist.
"This Moment for You captures different brush strokes or moments in time printed in different colours and put together into various compositions that together form a series of unique works. One can see how the same brush stroke changes character, expression and quality depending on the colour it is printed in; how a mark that can appear fierce and expressive in one colour seems delicate and calligraphic in another; and how different colours give the brushstroke an expression that can be opaque or transparent, flat or sculptural.
The moment in the series' title, This Moment for You, becomes thus somewhat ambiguous. It is a moment that captures the movement that lies behind the brushstroke, but also the stillness that comes after it: a kind of frozen state where the energetic moment is held back, transferred from the plate to the paper for posterity. This way, it can be passed on to us."
Excerpt from essay by Louise Steiwer
Ruth Campau, born 1955, Mors, Denmark. Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Recent exhibitions and site-specific installations include: Sunset Boulevard, Bornholm Art Museum, Denmark, Fielding, Caspar David Friedrich Zentrum, Greifswald, Germany and handwoven stories from the colorfields make the blanket warm, site-specific installation for Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark. Her work is included in the collections of ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark; Malmø Art Museum, Sweden; Kastrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Ny Carlsberg Foundation among others. She is the recipient of the Danish Arts Foundation's Lifelong Honorary Grant and The Eckersberg Medal among others.
RUTH CAMPAU
This Moment for You
(black/pink)
Year: 2022
Technique: Spit bite aquatint etching and chine-collé
Printed on Somerset White Satin 300 g.
Sheet size: 62 x 47 cm
Unique work from a monoprint series of 22
Signed by the artist
Printed & published by Printer’s Proof
Price: 1750 € (25% Danish VAT included)
RUTH CAMPAU
This Moment for You
(black/ silver)
Year: 2022
Technique: Spit bite aquatint etching and chine-collé
Printed on Somerset White Satin 300 g.
Sheet size: 62 x 47 cm
Unique work from a monoprint series of 22
Signed by the artist
Printed & published by Printer’s Proof
Price: 1750 € (25% Danish VAT included)
SOLD
RUTH CAMPAU
This Moment for You
(purple)
Year: 2022
Technique: Spit bite aquatint etching and chine-collé
Printed on Somerset White Satin 300 g.
Sheet size: 62 x 47 cm
Unique work from a monoprint series of 22
Signed by the artist
Printed & published by Printer’s Proof
Price: 1750 € (25% Danish VAT included)
SOLD
RUTH CAMPAU
This Moment for You
(ultramarine)
Year: 2022
Technique: Spit bite aquatint etching and chine-collé
Printed on Somerset White Satin 300 g.
Sheet size: 62 x 47 cm
Unique work from a monoprint series of 22
Signed by the artist
Printed & published by Printer’s Proof
Price: 1750 € (25% Danish VAT included)
RUTH CAMPAU
This Moment for You
(graphite/ sienna diptych)
Year: 2022
Technique: Spit bite aquatint etching and chine-collé
Printed on Somerset White Satin 300 g.
Sheet size: 62 x 79 cm
Unique work from a monoprint series of 22
Signed by the artist
Printed & published by Printer’s Proof
Price: 2425 € (25% Danish VAT included)
RUTH CAMPAU
This Moment for You
(ultramarine diptych)
Year: 2022
Technique: Spit bite aquatint etching and chine-collé
Printed on Somerset White Satin 300 g.
Sheet size: 62 x 79 cm
Unique work from a monoprint series of 22
Signed by the artist
Printed & published by Printer’s Proof
Price: 2425 € (25% Danish VAT included)
RUTH CAMPAU
This Moment for You
(carmine red/ petrol blue diptych)
Year: 2022
Technique: Spit bite aquatint etching and chine-collé
Printed on Somerset White Satin 300 g.
Sheet size: 62 x 79 cm
Unique work from a monoprint series of 22
Signed by the artist
Printed & published by Printer’s Proof
Price: 2425 € (25% Danish VAT included)
SOLD
RUTH CAMPAU
This Moment for You
(orange/ payne's grey diptych)
Year: 2022
Technique: Spit bite aquatint etching and chine-collé
Printed on Somerset White Satin 300 g.
Sheet size: 62 x 79 cm
Unique work from a monoprint series of 22
Signed by the artist
Printed & published by Printer’s Proof
Price: 2425 € (25% Danish VAT included)
SOLD
RUTH CAMPAU
This Moment for You
(chocolate brown/ lemon yellow diptych)
Year: 2022
Technique: Spit bite aquatint etching and chine-collé
Printed on Somerset White Satin 300 g.
Sheet size: 62 x 79 cm
Unique work from a monoprint series of 22
Signed by the artist
Printed & published by Printer’s Proof
Price: 2425 € (25% Danish VAT included)
SOLD
RUTH CAMPAU
This Moment for You
(purple/ sienna diptych)
Year: 2022
Technique: Spit bite aquatint etching and chine-collé
Printed on Somerset White Satin 300 g.
Sheet size: 62 x 79 cm
Unique work from a monoprint series of 22
Signed by the artist
Printed & published by Printer’s Proof
Price: 2425 € (25% Danish VAT included)
RUTH CAMPAU
This Moment for You
(prussian blue/ sienna diptych)
Year: 2022
Technique: Spit bite aquatint etching and chine-collé
Printed on Somerset White Satin 300 g.
Sheet size: 62 x 79 cm
Unique work from a monoprint series of 22
Signed by the artist
Printed & published by Printer’s Proof
Price: 2425 € (25% Danish VAT included)
SOLD
