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Black and Blue I and IV from Black and Blue

Vuyile Voyiya. Black and Blue I and IV from Black and Blue. 2005

Vuyile Voyiya (South African, born 1961; lives Cape Town). Black and Blue I and IV from Black and Blue. 2005. Two from a series of five linoleum cuts. Composition (each): 25 9/16 x 33 1/4" (65 x 84.5 cm); sheet (each): 31 x 42 1/4" (78.7 x 107.3 cm). Publisher: the artist, Cape Town. Printer: Hard Ground Printmakers Workshop, Cape Town. Edition: 10. Gift of the Associates of the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, 2007. © 2011 Vuyile Voyiya

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These prints are from a series of five by Vuyile Voyiya that pushes the limits of linocut with precise, short gouges clustered together in masses on heavily-inked sheets of paper. Grouped cinematically, the set suggests a connection with film and sculpture, the other mediums in which the artist has worked. The series title, Black and Blue, alludes to racial violence, a theme of the artist’s work of the 1980s.