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Reinis Gailītis

Reinis Gailītis

Artist's country of origin: Latvia

Reinis Gailītis a printmaker specializing in the hand engraved printmaking techniques – copper engraving (16th, 17th century) and wood engraving (18th, 19th century). These are some of the most laborious and technically difficult of the printing techniques do to which they are almost extinct in this day and age. But he believes that they still serve a purpose. Even though machine engraving has gone great lengths with development of better and finer CNC machines, but they still have not rivaled the quality of a hand engraved line. It can be explained by the method of engraving. If CNC is using rotary tools, small drills which leave even flat, round line, then hand engraving utilizes burin (a fine engraving chisel) which lifts a chip (bur) from the metal plate resulting in sharp, crisp and dynamic line. Such line far surpasses any other in its quality may it be machine engraved, etched, screen or digitally printed. Story of printmaking techniques is a story of technological innovation in printing. Faster, cheaper printing processes surpassed one another. But today and especially in visual arts, we judge a work not of the speed, but by the quality. That’s also the case with copper and wood engraving. Despite their differences, they share something in common, their visual language, character of the hand engraved line, which is positive (black) in copper engraving, but negative (white) in wood engraving. Because of this reason he has spent more than a year in attempts of combining two of these never before combined techniques.


Printmaking

Vortex by Reinis Gailītis
Vortex  
40 x 29 cm
€200
Face of ... by Reinis Gailītis
Face of ...  
25 x 18 cm
€80
Monoliths (Starships) by Reinis Gailītis
Monoliths (Starships)  
10.5 x 21 cm
€150
Sunflower by Reinis Gailītis
Sunflower  
14 x 21 cm
€100
Starship by Reinis Gailītis
Starship  
25 x 12.5 cm
€150
Sea Dragon by Reinis Gailītis
Sea Dragon  
12.5 x 16.5 cm
€150
Earth by Reinis Gailītis
Earth  
33 x 25 cm
€200
Series of two works Lamp I- II by Reinis Gailītis
Series of two works Lamp I- II  
25 x 25 cm
€150
Visor by Reinis Gailītis
Visor  
8 x 8 cm
€45
Bust by Reinis Gailītis
Bust  
15 x 15 cm
€65
Launch by Reinis Gailītis
Launch  
14 x 25 cm
€150
Vanitas by Reinis Gailītis
Vanitas  
25 x 25 cm
€150

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