Studio MOT | 1/1 prints

Valter Černeka, aka Studio MOT, is a sculptor by education and an anthropologist by nature. His most recent project is a print series made in the 35x25cm format. By always using the same matrix format, Valter combines multiple matrices on the same paper.

Although he did study printmaking, after finishing his studies Valter decided that this was not the direction he wanted to go in. “Series of the same print, made with super clean edges, perfect papers and amazing technique was not something which motivated me,” says the printmaker. He continues; “But printing the inside of a bark, putting a squid on an etching plate and printing it’s trace, or making my own pigment out of ash really drives me”.

Valter lives in a house with a big mediterranean garden full of herbs, fruits, and insects, which led him to take imprints of the changes of the seasons, drawing in line with nature. He put an etching plate under a mandarine tree and printed the imprint of the flowers that fall, and more ideas sparked from there.

Besides nature, changes in the environment and social influence on landscape are a big part of Valter’s work. In his visual communication he illustrates the coexistence of the past, present, and future in our surroundings. In this print series, Valter was inspired by Istria, a region in Croatia that has belonged to 4 different states during the last 100 years. Thus, there are remains of many different cultures from different times throughout history. Some of the prints contain parts of his heritage, keeping the memory of forgotten tools and materials alive. For example, Valter explains; “Viburnum used to make covers for big glass bottles or rusty harpoon, useless as a tool now, but beautiful as a memory on a wall”. The series follows the changes in the landscape and the metamorphosis of the relation between nature and humans during time.

Valter concludes; “It is quite important to understand these relations due to aesthetics that effects education and in turn our future generations and the sustainable ways of living. MOT strives towards a respectful way of coexistence.”

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