Linocut and lithograph on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/per-inge-bjrlo-6500" aria-label="More by Per Inge Bjørlo" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Per Inge Bjørlo</a>
Drift
Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004
adults
birth to death
body
clothing and personal items
head / face
man
mask
objects
people
society
youth
<p>Bjørlo worked with the staff of Tyler Graphics on a series of prints depicting the human head. The motif has a strong autobiographical significance for Bjørlo, who ran away from home at the age of sixteen to go to New York. He has described this experience as ‘looking for new rooms in his head’. The upturned face relates to this idea of searching. The stark, mask-like face underlines a bleak, introspective quality, which Bjørlo relates to his troubled early years.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2008</em></p>
paper print linocut lithograph
22 November 2004 – 4 April 2005
2005-04-04
15 November 2004
2004-11-15
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2004-11-22
Tyler Gift
Collection based display
Drift
image: 695 × 1020 mm
Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004
<p>Bjørlo worked with the staff of Tyler Graphics on a series of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> depicting the human head. The motif has a strong autobiographical significance for Bjørlo, who ran away from home at the age of sixteen to go to New York. He has described this experience as ‘looking for new rooms in his head’. The upturned face relates to this idea of searching. The stark, mask-like face underlines a bleak, introspective quality, which Bjørlo relates to his troubled early years.</p>

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adults birth to death body clothing and personal items head / face man mask objects people society youth