Book with print in a debossed cased-in hardcover edition with a unique manipulated artwork across front and the back cover. Book cover individually printed and transformed by the artist, then mounted onto boards.
ISBN:
9781912719815S
Simonet’s Cyan Years operates at the turbulent intersection of photography, painting, and industrial reproduction, marking a significant evolution in his alchemical, process-driven practice. Rather than functioning purely as a sequence of documentary images, the project conceptually folds in on itself like a Möbius strip. Simonet documents the physical environment of the printing factory, only to endlessly rework, adapt, and distort those very images on the offset presses they depict. This self-referential loop positions the book not merely as a container for photographs, but as a live, volatile site of production where the mechanics of commercial printing become both the subject and the medium.
Visually, Cyan Years is defined by its chemically saturated, highly unstable aesthetic. The sequence swirls and congeals like wet ink, deliberately dissolving the boundaries between test strips, press interventions, and finalized artworks. Simonet thrives on the slippages of the print process, utilizing aggressive overprinting, physical ink manipulation, and chromatic bleeding to disrupt the fidelity of the original photographic captures. This results in compositions that vibrate with an almost toxic intensity, creating a dense, tactile surface tension where the industrial reality of the factory floor is abstracted into hallucinatory washes of color and noise.
This is the limited edition of the book, which came with a signed print.
Simonet’s Cyan Years operates at the turbulent intersection of photography, painting, and industrial reproduction, marking a significant evolution in his alchemical, process-driven practice. Rather than functioning purely as a sequence of documentary images, the project conceptually folds in on itself like a Möbius strip. Simonet documents the physical environment of the printing factory, only to endlessly rework, adapt, and distort those very images on the offset presses they depict. This self-referential loop positions the book not merely as a container for photographs, but as a live, volatile site of production where the mechanics of commercial printing become both the subject and the medium.
Visually, Cyan Years is defined by its chemically saturated, highly unstable aesthetic. The sequence swirls and congeals like wet ink, deliberately dissolving the boundaries between test strips, press interventions, and finalized artworks. Simonet thrives on the slippages of the print process, utilizing aggressive overprinting, physical ink manipulation, and chromatic bleeding to disrupt the fidelity of the original photographic captures. This results in compositions that vibrate with an almost toxic intensity, creating a dense, tactile surface tension where the industrial reality of the factory floor is abstracted into hallucinatory washes of color and noise.
This is the limited edition of the book, which came with a signed print.
Simonet’s Cyan Years operates at the turbulent intersection of photography, painting, and industrial reproduction, marking a significant evolution in his alchemical, process-driven practice. Rather than functioning purely as a sequence of documentary images, the project conceptually folds in on itself like a Möbius strip. Simonet documents the physical environment of the printing factory, only to endlessly rework, adapt, and distort those very images on the offset presses they depict. This self-referential loop positions the book not merely as a container for photographs, but as a live, volatile site of production where the mechanics of commercial printing become both the subject and the medium.
Visually, Cyan Years is defined by its chemically saturated, highly unstable aesthetic. The sequence swirls and congeals like wet ink, deliberately dissolving the boundaries between test strips, press interventions, and finalized artworks. Simonet thrives on the slippages of the print process, utilizing aggressive overprinting, physical ink manipulation, and chromatic bleeding to disrupt the fidelity of the original photographic captures. This results in compositions that vibrate with an almost toxic intensity, creating a dense, tactile surface tension where the industrial reality of the factory floor is abstracted into hallucinatory washes of color and noise.
This is the limited edition of the book, which came with a signed print.