Screenprint on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/peter-lowe-1530" aria-label="More by Peter Lowe" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Peter Lowe</a>
Rational Concepts
Purchased 1981
abstraction
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
geometric
non-representational
sequence
paper print screenprint
26 March 2013 – 1 June 2014
2014-06-01
26 March 2013 – 18 May 2013
2013-05-18
2013-03-26
Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), (London, UK)
2013-03-26
Keywords
Loan-out
28 February 2014 – 11 May 2014
2014-05-11
28 February 2014 – 11 May 2014
2014-05-11
2014-02-28
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2014-02-28
Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980s Britain
Exhibition
Rational Concepts
image: 597 × 597 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07427</b> [from] RATIONAL CONCEPTS 1977 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dilworth-rational-concepts-p07424" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07424</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wise-rational-concepts-p07430" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07430</span></a>; complete]
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<br/><span>P07424</span> inscribed ‘Dilworth’ bottom right and ‘38/100’
<br/><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hill-rational-concepts-p07425" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07425</span></a> inscribed ‘Anthony Hill’ on back and ‘38/100’
<br/><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hughes-rational-concepts-p07426" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07426</span></a> inscribed ‘Malcolm Hughes’ on back and ‘38/100’
<br/><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lowe-rational-concepts-p07427" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07427</span></a> inscribed ‘Peter Lowe’ on back and ‘38/100’
<br/><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/martin-rational-concepts-p07428" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07428</span></a> inscribed ‘Kenneth Martin 77’ on back and ‘38/100’
<br/><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/steele-rational-concepts-p07429" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07429</span></a> inscribed ‘Jeffrey Steele’ on back and ‘38/100’
<br/><span>P07430</span> inscribed ‘G. Wise C’ bottom right and ‘38/100’
<br/>Seven screenprints, printed at Edition Hoffman, Friedberg, and published by Lydia Megert, Berne and Edition Hoffman, each 23 1/2×23 1/2 (59.6×59.6)
<br/>Purchased from Gillian Wise-Ciobotaru (Grant-in-Aid) 1980
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<br/>The artists were selected by Lydia Megert and the <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/portfolio" title="Glossary definition for 'Portfolio'"><span>portfolio</span></a> was designed by Rudolf Mattes. The portfolio is accompanied by an introduction by Richard Paul Lohse, ‘Constructive Art in England Today’, and short statements by each artist.
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<br/>Dilworth's statement makes an analogy between the formal structure of a sentence: ‘If I say “I draw a line” I use Subject-Verb-Object’, and a work of art, stressing the necessity for equilibrium.
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<br/>Hill's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/screenprint" title="Glossary definition for 'Screenprint'"><span>screenprint</span></a> is the same configuration as an <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraved</span></a> laminated work (1972); it ‘plays on hexorientation: silhouettes of cubes and fragments of cubes appear and disappear in different ways’.
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<br/>Hughes explains that he is interested in what can be realised with numbers, given the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/conceptual-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Conceptual art'"><span>conceptual</span></a> basis of a numerical system. The present <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> ‘is concerned with a set of simple operations upon the position and unit length of the prime numbers within the natural number sequence 1–20’.
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<br/>In Lowe's <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>print</span></a> ‘an eight by eight unit grid is removed from the inside of a ten by ten unit grid. The remaining square path is subdivided into 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 groups of squares and every other group is painted black’.
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<br/>Martin's print is one of the extensive series of ‘Chance and Order’ works, in which randomly selected numbers within the sequence set around the image area are used to determine the configuration of lines.
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<br/>Steele's print is ‘Sg V 2’; it is one of a series each of which consists of ‘a set of elements whose relations are governed by syntactic transformations’.
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<br/>Wise's print is the fifth in a related series of works, the first being a plexiglass and thread construction, 1968. The second is a drawing made about the same time, and the third and fourth are a <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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/gouache" title="Glossary definition for 'Gouache'"><span>gouache</span></a> study both in the Tate Collection (<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wise-looped-network-suspended-in-pictorial-space-t01965" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>T01965</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wise-study-for-looped-network-suspended-in-pictorial-space-t01966" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>T01966</span></a>).
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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2004-10-11T00:00:00
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abstraction emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities geometric non-representational sequence