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Fingerprint 2007, 2007
Zhang Yu
China, b. 1959
Fingerprint 2007, 2007
Water on xuan paper
Foundation Ink Collection
Promised gift of the Foundation Ink
Zhang Yu’s signature fingerprint paintings are at once self-portraits, rubbings, and meditations. The artist repeatedly presses his finger print into his paper, commonly using red or black ink, but in this case, only water. Employing his fingerprint as a stamp, Zhang creates a textured surface in his water-only pieces, the trace of the action here conveyed through the indentation of the paper, as opposed to the stamped ink.
© Zhang Yu, photo: Maurice Aeschimann, Geneva