Rebirth

Original Linocut Artwork Series by Alexey Pushkarev
Contemporary Printmaking • Original Linocut Prints • Artist Practice

REBIRTH is a contemporary printmaking series built from what was never meant to survive.

Created through the residual gestures of the linocut process, the works emerge from protective sheets traditionally treated as disposable studio material. During printing, ink escapes the edge of the carved matrix, leaving accidental traces — marks of pressure, movement, friction, hesitation, and repetition. These secondary surfaces, normally hidden beneath the “real” artwork, become the artwork itself.

In REBIRTH, waste becomes archive.

The series examines how value is constructed within both art history and contemporary culture. By elevating discarded process-material into unique works, the project questions traditional hierarchies between finished object and invisible labor, intention and accident, permanence and disappearance.

Each composition exists as a record of physical time. The layered red and blue forms behave like emotional residues — colliding, dissolving, rebuilding. Their interaction suggests systems in constant transformation: memory becoming matter, destruction becoming renewal, absence becoming image.

While rooted in the language of linocut, REBIRTH moves beyond conventional printmaking. The works operate between painting, drawing, imprint, and performance documentation. What remains visible is not only the image, but evidence of the body itself — pressure of the hand, speed of movement, rhythm of repetition.

At a time when digital production increasingly removes traces of human touch, REBIRTH reasserts the poetic value of imperfection, process, and material memory.

These works are not reproductions.

They are survivors of the act of making.