Martin Tardy (AT / FR) – Portrait Shadow 1 (White)

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Martin Tardy (AT / FR)
“Portrait Shadow 1” White Edition, 2021
2c screen print on Munken Kristall Rough, 300g/m²
70x50cm, edition of 48
The print ships signed and numbered by the artist including a certificate of authenticity

Martin Tardy is a Vienna-based artist of Austrian-French descent, born 1992, whose practice follows a single rule: the pen never leaves the paper. His continuous line drawings trace the human body in unbroken gestures — a technique rooted in Picasso’s single-line portraits and Matisse’s figure studies, but taken further. Tardy often draws with both hands simultaneously, turning each work into a performance. This is his first screen print series, produced in close collaboration with LEAP — the artist selected three works from his private collection to be reproduced on carefully chosen papers.

Portrait Shadow 1 (White) presents the same X-ray-like head on Munken Kristall Rough — floating on a bright ground instead of emerging from darkness. Where the black edition absorbs light, this one reflects it; the silver pigments in the ink create a shifting surface that changes with the viewer’s position. A portrait less drawn than excavated — Tardy called the original “a happy mistake” that reminded him of the layered complexity of human anatomy. Two-color screen print.

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