WORKSHOP – MORDANÇAGE PROZESS, TORSTEN WIECZOREK

Our one-day workshop is designed for people who want to explore new methods of manipulating prints in the art and will take you from a quick overview about the chemicals used, to prints best suited for this technique to your own way of experimenting with this process.

Mordançage is a special, alternative process used with finished prints. Through this process, the artist has the possibility to manipulate the print physically by lifting, repositioning and securing the dark portions of the emulsion of a black & white silver gelatin print.
The Mordançage process had several names when Paul Liesegang originally discovered it in the late 1800s. A method of reversing a film negative to a positive using a bleach solution was originally designed to be used on film and not paper.
The term Mordançage was coined by Jean-Pierre Sudre in the 20th century who turned this process into an art form.

Our one-day workshop is designed for people who want to explore new methods of manipulating prints in the art and will take you from a quick overview about the chemicals used, to prints best suited for this technique to your own way of experimenting with this process.

Part 1

• What is the Mordançage process?
• Chemicals used
• Which Prints are suited for this process

Part 2

• Experimenting and techniques using the Mordançage process