Sweat Soaked No.14 by HENRY HU Marylène Madou Photogravure Nr 109 from Karl

Photogravure Nr 109 from Karl Blossfeldt's celebrated Urformen der Kunst series presents a dried plant specimen as a study in pure form

deep greens

The composition is spare: flower against neutral ground

Warm flesh tones

Nico Tracey plays with scale

Sweat Soaked No.14 by HENRY HU Marylène Madou Photogravure Nr 109 from KarlSweat Soaked No. 14 is perhaps the most compositionally open work in Henry Hu's series. Negative space plays an active role here areas of near white allow the denser graphic passages to breathe, creating a rhythm of tension and release across the vertical format. The figurative elements are more dispersed, scattered across the picture plane rather than clustered at the centre, which gives the work an almost musical quality: a series of visual notes