Adam Saks - prints - Adam Saks

'For me the graphic strand and the oil paintings constantly interweave. They mutually benefit from each other. That's why the printed works are so important. They form a sort of alphabet for the paintings. They are the 'letters' from which the painterly 'words' are made. They have an intimacy I want to bring up on canvases, too. For me it is always kind of a quest to achieve this very refined kind of mark-making, the same nervous intensity in my paintings. They linger between roughness and smoothness, they exist on many levels.'- Adam SaksThis delicate volume is comprised of Danish artist Adam Saks' printed works - etchings, photogravures and wood-cuts - of the last five years, fittingly accompanying his recent exhibition catalogue, Inhaling Darkness, Exhaling Galaxies.Saks is both a bearer and a renovator of tradition who holds printmaking in high regards. In his graphic images there is a 'roughness' and originality forming a kind of puzzle.He urges us not to waste any valuable moments. When a candle is blown out, its light vanished and the smoke of extinction coiling up into a demonic signal, it is important to read and interpret the message before the smoke is dispersed completely.English and Swedish text.