1976 Screenprints

While he was involved in producing the sculpture for the Gimpel exhibition, Benjamin continued making screenprints with Bernard Pratt of the Retigraphic Society. Some of the images featured a continuity of the forms he was using in his sculptural works: Nimbus Clouds and Zigzag Towers, as well as other simple geometric forms. Rather than use the full range of strong colours, for the first time he used a range of subtle, silver tones in echoing and repeating shadows of the main forms.

Pandora’s Pink Cloud I, 1976, screenprint

Untitled, 1976, screenprint

Pandora’s Pink Cloud II, 1976, screenprint

Six screenprints are from a suite called Sixxxxxx.

Postcard reproduction used for screenprint below.

Pandora’s Pink Cloud II, 1976, screenprint

Six screenprints are from a suite called Sixxxxxx.

Pharox, 1976, screenprint

Tantrax, 1976, screenprint

Tantrix, 1976, screenprint

Omega Factor I, 1976, screenprint

Benjamin was given a book of 19th-century engravings called The Covering of Solids, meant as a guide for craftsmen carpenters to use when confronted with the problems of constructing complex three-dimensional forms. He used images of the diagrams in producing a series of screenprints with that title.