【Woodcut Printmaking】Happy New Year to the Rooster-Xu Yixuan

Artist: Xu Yixuan Title of work: Happy New Year to the Rooster Media technique: letterpress monolithic engraving Heart size: 16.2 x 20.8cm Paper size: 28.5 x38cm Year: 2018 Number of editions: 45 limited editions, shipped randomly Origin/manufacturing method Taiwan/Hand printed Introduction of works: The idea of the work comes from the weasel giving New Year greetings to the rooster. Through the transformation of the picture, the weasel can also go to Foshan with the twelve zodiac animals with a pious heart-giving New Year greetings to the rooster, subverting the traditional stereotype. The image of the chicken is like a god, standing majestically in the mountains, majestic like the mother of all things. Woodcut (Woodcut) refers to the wooden board, which is carved off with a carving knife, chisel and other tools, and the part to be colored (convex) is kept and rolled with color, and the printed image is a convex image. Woodblock print is the earliest and longest-history type of print, with a unique knife-cut flavor and wood grain. artist resume 2012 National Taipei University of the Arts - Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduation major in printmaking 2016 Founder of Snail's Time Printmaking Studio, Yunlin Douliu award 2015 First Prize of the 30th Printing New Year Paintings of the Republic of China for the Year of the Goat 2016 Selected in the printmaking category of the 105th National Art Exhibition 2016 Selected for the 17th International Printmaking Biennale of the Republic of China 2016 The 1st Makurazaki International Art Exhibition in Kagoshima, Japan 2017 The 32nd Printed New Year of the Republic of China Year of the Rooster Award 2018 The first prize of the 33rd Printed Year of the Dog Year of the Republic of China 2019 The 34th Printed Year of the Republic of China Year of the Rat was selected