On March 12th, Chris Levine unveiled Light is Love, a new series of etchings in collaboration with the London-based Manifold Editions.
Light is Love originates from Levine's immersive light works, the blipverts. For his first collaboration with Manifold Editions, Levine translates his light work into the print medium, featuring shuttered heart motifs set in motion, their distinctive forms interrupted by bright beams of light. The series marks the artist's first experiments with the etching medium. The editions are printed through layering multiple etching plates, hand coloured using densely pigmented inks, in a palette of vibrant pinks, yellows, purples and blues.
“The title of this series came to me in something of a ‘eureka’ moment. In a meditative state I had the profound realisation that Light is in fact Love. It was a deep sense, beyond what I could ever describe in words, that I had come to a simple truth. It became the title of a series of light installations that project the word ‘love’ and its symbol, the heart, into the viewer’s peripheral vision. In this print series I’ve captured the images photographically and then developed a series of etchings from those images.”
- Chris Levine
Light is Love will be exhibited for the first time at the 40th London Original Print Fair, Somerset House (March 20th - 23rd, 2025).
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