[Baron/Boisanté has published eighteen editions by Not Vital, comprising individual prints, folios and multiples]
Dung, 1997




detail

 Twelve lift-ground aquatints mounted on a single piece of dyed cloth.

Working in his village in the Swiss Alps and in a dairy farm in Pennsylvania, the artist dropped cow dung onto each of twelve copper plates. The plates were sprayed with a resist (spraypaint), the dung was removed, an aquatint was applied and the plates were etched. The twelve prints were then mounted on cloth in rows of three from top to bottom and four from side to side.
 

Plate size: 171/4 x 171/4 in. - 43.8 x 43.8 cm.
Sheet size: variable among the 12 prints.
Complete work: 621/2 x 801/2 in. - 158.7 x 204.4 cm.

Edition of 8 plus 3 artist’s proofs, 1 printer’s proofs. Signed (l.c.), dated (l.r.) and numbered (l.l).
Paper: Somerset.
Plates processed and printed by Felix Harlan and Carol Weaver, New York.
Mounting of prints by J. Fields Studio, New York.