Bernd Wiedemann – Master of Etching

October 13, 2020December 20, 2020 Michael Nguyen 1 min read

Most of the time, a story is best told only in a specific medium; and a medium always finds its master. Etching is a graphic intaglio printing process of artistic printmaking. And Bernd Wiedemann is a master of it. He is at home at the interface between text and image, free and applied graphics. His meanings of expression and styles are correspondingly diverse, depending on requirements and subject matter. He works in etching, pastel, pencil, and ink, occasionally acrylic and gouache. His interests in natural and cultural history are also expressed in his work. To work synergetically, to bring people and topics together constructively, to maintain contacts, to promote exchange and to create opportunities for all are his concerns.

These three visual sagas show Wiedermann’s great command of Etching and some other illustration techniques, but most importantly his ideas, world views and messages to the world.

Three series by German artist Bernd Wiedemann „How to keep your town tourist free“, “Fukushima backlit” and “Golden Sargassum”

Esopunk horror science fiction. Records of a sworn diver (pencil, digitally edited)

In 2038 a gravitational pulse from the constellation of the Swan hits the earth and all the women go on strike, dissolving, condensing and uniting in the last incarnation of the Black Goddess Kalis. A universal egg cell made of gold is built, the mother ball or vacuum bomb, and sunk into the sea to heal the planet and initiate a new evolutionary leap. However, the voracious super-organism, a breed of the corporation “the chance”, prefers to feed itself into the mother sphere and shape the next eon.

From the series “Golden Sargassum”

“Küstenmetropolen” from the series “Golden Sargassum”

from the series “Golden Sargassum”

“Küstenmetropolen 2” from the series “Golden Sargassum”

“Küstenmetropolen 6” from the series “Golden Sargassum”

“Gelber Märtyrer 2” from the series “Golden Sargassum”

“Küstenmetropolen 5” from the series “Golden Sargassum”

“Märtyrer 2” from the series “Golden Sargassum”

“Küstenmetropolen 20” from the series “Golden Sargassum”

“Küstenmetropolen 7” from the series “Golden Sargassum”

From the series “Golden Sargassum”

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