An intriguing series of pyramidal shapes dance across the paper in this ink etching created in 1977 by British contemporary artist, Anthony …

Pyramids 21/75

More Works By Anthony Benjamin Ink Etching 1977
22.25 × 14.75 in 56.52 × 37.47 cm
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About Pyramids 21/75

An intriguing series of pyramidal shapes dance across the paper in this ink etching created in 1977 by British contemporary artist, Anthony Benjamin. Detailed designs that appear like hieroglyphics layered in rows are rendered in black, brown and white on a neutral background.
During the 1970’s Benjamin, a close school friend of Brian Eno (a musician and member of Roxy Music) created a series of prints that visualized the popular band’s electronic music. Benjamin experimented with form and colour throughout his artistic career.

Edition 21 of 75.

“To rationalize my own work is easy, but I don’t want to rationalize it for in rationalizing it one seems to be led by what seems rational.”
Anthony Benjamin

Born in England in 1931, he first studied draughting at a technical College in 1947 and was accepted as an engineering draughtsman at the University of Westminster (1950–1954). After only one year of school, he travelled to Paris and studied for three months with a modern French artist, sculptor and filmmaker, Fernand Léger. He continued his studies in Paris after graduation having won a one-year scholarship for painting and printmaking. Benjamin taught and lectured at schools in England, the U.S., in Calgary and at York University in Toronto. He returned to London and moved to the country in Norfolk in the mid 1980’s. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Anthony Benjamin died in 2002. His work can be found in public and private collections.
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