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Stretching a canvas w/ artwork on it...advice needed, by thisisanton on Apr 4, 2014 1:53:18 GMT 1, I'm considering on buying an original artwork by C215 from a gallery. It's one of his cat stencils on an
un-stretched vintage canvas. Here's my concern...I'd like to stretch the canvas, and eventually have a tray made for it. By stretching the canvas, will that lower the value of the artwork? Or should it be left as is and find another way to hang/frame it?
I'm considering on buying an original artwork by C215 from a gallery. It's one of his cat stencils on an
un-stretched vintage canvas. Here's my concern...I'd like to stretch the canvas, and eventually have a tray made for it. By stretching the canvas, will that lower the value of the artwork? Or should it be left as is and find another way to hang/frame it?
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Stretching a canvas w/ artwork on it...advice needed, by Feral Things on Apr 6, 2014 15:31:35 GMT 1, If the canvas was stretched when C215 painted the piece and it was just removed from the stretcher bars for ease of shipping to the gallery then there shouldn't be any issues with having it restretched and I would have thought that this was necessary to display it as intended by the artist. If you haven't stretched a canvas before then I would either get your framer to take care of it (if they're good) or contact someone like Harris Moore.
If the canvas was not stretched when the piece was painted then I would be wary of stretching it now. Spraypaint is quite inelastic and brittle and the danger is that, if the canvas is stretched to a greater tension than when the paint was applied, you might end up with hairline cracks in the surface of the paint where it has been pulled apart by the underlying canvas.
Hope this helps and would love to see the piece if you pulls the trigger.
If the canvas was stretched when C215 painted the piece and it was just removed from the stretcher bars for ease of shipping to the gallery then there shouldn't be any issues with having it restretched and I would have thought that this was necessary to display it as intended by the artist. If you haven't stretched a canvas before then I would either get your framer to take care of it (if they're good) or contact someone like Harris Moore. If the canvas was not stretched when the piece was painted then I would be wary of stretching it now. Spraypaint is quite inelastic and brittle and the danger is that, if the canvas is stretched to a greater tension than when the paint was applied, you might end up with hairline cracks in the surface of the paint where it has been pulled apart by the underlying canvas. Hope this helps and would love to see the piece if you pulls the trigger. |
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Stretching a canvas w/ artwork on it...advice needed, by thisisanton on Apr 11, 2014 16:00:13 GMT 1, If the canvas was stretched when C215 painted the piece and it was just removed from the stretcher bars for ease of shipping to the gallery then there shouldn't be any issues with having it restretched and I would have thought that this was necessary to display it as intended by the artist. If you haven't stretched a canvas before then I would either get your framer to take care of it (if they're good) or contact someone like Harris Moore. If the canvas was not stretched when the piece was painted then I would be wary of stretching it now. Spraypaint is quite inelastic and brittle and the danger is that, if the canvas is stretched to a greater tension than when the paint was applied, you might end up with hairline cracks in the surface of the paint where it has been pulled apart by the underlying canvas. Hope this helps and would love to see the piece if you pulls the trigger.
If the canvas was stretched when C215 painted the piece and it was just removed from the stretcher bars for ease of shipping to the gallery then there shouldn't be any issues with having it restretched and I would have thought that this was necessary to display it as intended by the artist. If you haven't stretched a canvas before then I would either get your framer to take care of it (if they're good) or contact someone like Harris Moore. If the canvas was not stretched when the piece was painted then I would be wary of stretching it now. Spraypaint is quite inelastic and brittle and the danger is that, if the canvas is stretched to a greater tension than when the paint was applied, you might end up with hairline cracks in the surface of the paint where it has been pulled apart by the underlying canvas. Hope this helps and would love to see the piece if you pulls the trigger. Thanks. Just bought the piece. Should be getting it in the next week or two. After talking with someone from the gallery, I think it wasn't intended to be stretched. It might be the artist's intention to have it displayed that way. It's gives it more of a vintage look to it, plus a lot of C215's pieces is made from found materials. |
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Stretching a canvas w/ artwork on it...advice needed, by Feral Things on Apr 11, 2014 17:41:57 GMT 1, Congratulations on the pick up; I bet the vintage canvas looks great. I knew C215 had mentioned painting on new canvas in an interview a few years back but have only just remembered who the interview was with. It was with Shooting Gallery and the whole interview is here but the relevant section was:
"Your stencils are never placed on a new canvas. In this show I see a lot of recycled materials, like cardboard and pieces of metal. Is this a way of bringing the aesthetic of the street into the gallery setting?
What is sure is that technically, spray paint (glycero) is not done to paint on canvasses. Canvasses are done for brushes, acrylic and oil painting. Spray paint is soon or later crackling on canvasses, because canvasses are constantly stretching while spray paint is not flexible. So I prefer to paint on hard surfaces. Anyway I don’t like canvasses. The white surface of a canvas is not neutral at all: it is somewhere written, invisible “here has to pop up Art.” There is no freedom nor artistic surprise at the end. I am not sure to be good at creating canvasses. My art is contextual. I like the streets because are they give me a context to interact with. I have the same feeling when painting on objects, at a smaller scale. When I find an object, like a luggage, a shoe shiner’s box, a cardboard piece or anything else, there are preexisting layers, colours and even function that I can interact with through my paintings to make sense. There is something more than the design I paint on. These objects are full of their own past, their own life, and they provide an imaginary field for emotions. That’s why these objects are sometimes compared to the streets, because they are, when mixed with a nice painting, adding something to it. Recycling is a big challenge in the period we live in. Unconsciously people know it. It is always moving to see an object with no interest nor value being turned into a piece of art. This is also the magic of Art: turning something without value into a little treasure."
Congratulations on the pick up; I bet the vintage canvas looks great. I knew C215 had mentioned painting on new canvas in an interview a few years back but have only just remembered who the interview was with. It was with Shooting Gallery and the whole interview is here but the relevant section was:
"Your stencils are never placed on a new canvas. In this show I see a lot of recycled materials, like cardboard and pieces of metal. Is this a way of bringing the aesthetic of the street into the gallery setting?
What is sure is that technically, spray paint (glycero) is not done to paint on canvasses. Canvasses are done for brushes, acrylic and oil painting. Spray paint is soon or later crackling on canvasses, because canvasses are constantly stretching while spray paint is not flexible. So I prefer to paint on hard surfaces. Anyway I don’t like canvasses. The white surface of a canvas is not neutral at all: it is somewhere written, invisible “here has to pop up Art.” There is no freedom nor artistic surprise at the end. I am not sure to be good at creating canvasses. My art is contextual. I like the streets because are they give me a context to interact with. I have the same feeling when painting on objects, at a smaller scale. When I find an object, like a luggage, a shoe shiner’s box, a cardboard piece or anything else, there are preexisting layers, colours and even function that I can interact with through my paintings to make sense. There is something more than the design I paint on. These objects are full of their own past, their own life, and they provide an imaginary field for emotions. That’s why these objects are sometimes compared to the streets, because they are, when mixed with a nice painting, adding something to it. Recycling is a big challenge in the period we live in. Unconsciously people know it. It is always moving to see an object with no interest nor value being turned into a piece of art. This is also the magic of Art: turning something without value into a little treasure."
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Stretching a canvas w/ artwork on it...advice needed, by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 18:22:56 GMT 1, Sound advice & good memory there feral.
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Sound advice & good memory there feral.
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