Printmaking Expansion by The Other Form of Presentation

Abstract

Printmaking is one of the traditional techniques that an artist can choose to create art. By doing a whole printmaking process, there are so many values and meanings that we can take, which is very intense and meticulous. There are many reasons why printmaking is not as popular as painting, ceramics, or sculpture in Indonesia. Limited material, tools, and machines for working on printmaking make this technique challenging to find and do the practice. Printmaking has made much history, so it has the right to be introduced to people. New media art expressions (installation and performance) have replaced the position or status of printmaking with their sophisticated technology, which can offer more stimulating aesthetic values. Because of that, the printmakers have to challenge themselves to criticize and respond to these conditions so that printmaking will constantly exist, evolve, and contribute to the art scene, which is increasingly dynamic and progressive. Using literature and case study as a method, we can see how far these printmakers can preserve, explore and bring up printmaking to the next level without losing the principle. In the practice of contemporary art in this present time, there are no longer any restrictions on discourse, technique, and medium in the making of art; there will always be an artist or printmaker who seeks a newness on printmaking and look for any potentials value in printmaking. It can open any possibilities of how printmaking could be present.