In the introduction of the book, published by Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart and Éditions Cercle d’Art, Paris in 1962, Wilhem Boeck tells us why the great artist started to make a book with this printing technique:
Picasso had recently become an adept of cut-linoleum printing. It was a new activity, and doubtless owed to the artist’s desire to give colour pride of place within printed creations when graphic arts had, until then, consigned it to a subordinate role – even in lithography. Taking up the gouge was less, for Picasso, about exploring a new realm of objects and forms, then exposing the forms he had mastered to the rigours of as-yet untested technical possibilities. As he did every time he embarked on a new task, be it sculpture, lithography, ceramics or aquatints, the result obtained can be compared to nothing but previous creations by Picasso himself.
Once again Éditions Cercle d’Art have entrusted us with an exciting project, full of technical challenges, as was the updated edition of the “Toros y toreros” in 2017. In this case, the premise was based on the same problem, the only possible original as an element of reproduction was an original book edited and printed in a workshop in Stuttgart using the linography technique by the artist himself in 1962. Changing from a reproduction made by means of linography (Linocut) to an offset printing in current technology implied an important challenge, because the density and intensity of the colour are much higher in this ancient and artisan printing technique than in current graphic technologies.
After analyzing each and every one of the works that appeared in the 1962 edition, we proposed to Bernard Champeau of Éditions Cercle d’Art to print the new edition with the combination of the technique of the multi-colour-RGB and printing with our new Speedmaster LED UV, creating a specific profile for the chosen paper, for the exit of the EPSON tests by Les Caméléons and a specific profile for the machine and the inks.
The sequence was:
The result is an almost impeccable reproduction of openings made in linography with the most innovative technology in printing that we can obtain in the market today: printing by means of multichrome-RGB in a last generation UV LED machine.
PAGES
104 + guards + lining + case
PRINT RUN
1,000 copies (500 in French + 500 in English)
FORMAT
38,5×32 cm (landscape)
COVER
Cialinen 2085 fabric, screen-printed with 2 inks + stamping spine and 1st cover 70%
GUARDS
240 g. white popset printed at 4 + 0 inks
INTERIOR
104 pages: 88 in multicolour + 16 to 1 + 1 (2 languages) Old Mill Bianco paper 350 g.
BINDING
Hard cover 3,5 mm flat back, cups
FORMAT
37.7×3.5×28 cm (landscape)
PAPER
Graphic card 1 side 580 g.
PRINTING
4 + 1 (offset pigmented part outwards)
DIE-CUT
Die-cut and put book inside
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