Gérard TITUS-CARMEL - Untitled, 1989 - Original screenprint signed in pencil

Screen print : Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works. In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Gérard Titus-Carmel : Born in 1942 in Paris, Gérard Titus-Carmel, is a painter, draughtsman, engraver, poet and french essayist. He has illustrated and published many works. He lives and work in Oulchy-le-Château (Aisne, France). Trained at the École Boulle between 1958 and 1962, Titus-Carmel had his first solo exhibition in 1964. Since he participated to more than 450 group exhibitions. Near 200 solo exhibitions have been dedicated to him worldwide, his work is exhibited in a hundred of museums and public collections (Paris, Osaka, Alexandria, New York, Sidney, Venice, Moscow, Sevilla, Tōkyō, Vienna, Prague…). He created monumental works for the Ministry of Finance in Paris, the DRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Châlons-en-Champagne and the palais des congrès (congress centre) in Nantes (France).