Premio Combat Prize

Process influences the content and the content influences the process. Content = Process = Content = Process = Content = Process. As an artist, I prefer to make no separation between the print arts and the entire field of visual arts. An artist should challenge the boundaries of any medium. The use of prints in installations or three dimensional works shows the flexibility of print media and how useful they are to all artists. In my own work, I augment the use of traditional printing techniques combining them with computer print, video and audio. Conceptually, the process of printmaking is quite significant and has become a part of the content of my work. I am mainly fascinated by one of the characteristic attributes of printing techniques, reproducibility. I use reproducibility not to make editions, but as a generating element. During the printing process, the “repetitions” get layered on one another creating new visual forms.
I never make elaborate sketches; my work evolves on my press by printing layers on top of each other, in a fluent working process. I have my sources of course. Time, as it is also in a process, is the basic theme in my work. I am strongly influenced by (Henri) Bergson’s idea of time, especially his philosophical thinking about “durée,” the continuous living of a memory which proceeds the past into the present. Emerging out of the manner in which I experience time, I highlight what can not be interpreted as concrete, within measurable time, for the soul is not able to comprehend the experience as a phenomenon within the limits of time. This is a foundation for my images, a non - transparent, archaic tissue of frequently recurring forms. Also important in the content are processes of manipulation, the phenomena of the matrix and the controlled coincidence or serendipity. Time is also involved in the human body as well as in the actions it undertakes. Therefore, I often use my own skin and body parts to reference and translate time in more visual aspects.
This can be seen through the underlying dark grid of a lithographic print. Horizontal lines emerge, continued across the work, formed from the creases in a digital photographic close-up of my skin, or the recognizable elements of mouth or eye-elements which are derived from photographs of the surfaces of my body. In this manner, time taken to produce the lithographic print is mirrored in the passage of time evident in the creases in the skin, so that my physical presence, in a kind of self-portrait, becomes unified with the process I followed over a passage of time producing the work as a whole.
Ingrid Ledent studied graphic art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp between 1973 and 1978, then she specialized in lithography for one year in Rudolf Broulim’s studio at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague (Czech Republic). In 1981 she obtained her Master Degree at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp
Ingrid Ledent is professor of lithography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp since 1984
SELECTION AWARDS:
2014: Imprint 2014: 3rd Tadeusz Kulisiewicz International Graphic Arts Triennial in Warsaw, Poland; Grand Prix
2011: 5th Splitgraphic International Graphic Art Biennial; Grand Prix
2007: 5th International Triennial of Graphic Arts Prague, Czech Republic; 1st Prize
2007: International Print Biennial in Guanlan 2007, China; Big Prize
2006: International Print Triennial 2006 Krakow, Poland; Grand Prix
2006:”The 5th International lithographic Symposium”, Tidaholm, Sweden; Grand Prix
2005: IV Novosibirsk International Biennial of Contemporary Graphic Art 2005 ,Russia; 3rd Prize :‘Digital generated Prints’
2005: 8th International Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Arts Györ, Hungaria; Grand Prix
2003: 7th International Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Arts Gyor, Hungaria; 2nd prize
2001: 3rd International Triennial of Graphic Arts Prague, Czech Republic; Grand Prix
1999: 5th International Graphic Biennial Györ ,(Hungary): Mission Art Gallery Prize
1996: International Senefelder Competition for Lithography, Offenbach, Germany; 3rd prize
SELECTION SOLO-EXHIBITIONS: 2005-2009
2005: “Hommage to Dziga Vertov” lithographie- Werkstatt Stadt Eichstätt, Germany
2005: “Time” Eesti Litograafiakeskuse Galerii, Pärnu, Estonia
2006: “Durée” Sint Jorispand, Antwerp, Belgium
2007: “Inner Duration” Varosi Muveszeti Museum, Györ, Hungaria
2009: “Continuum Ininterrompu”, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada
2009: “The continuous living of a memory” ICC, Cracow, Poland
2011: “ Ingrid Ledent”, Galerie ES, Nijlen, Belgium
2013: “Ingrid Ledent” Gallery of Univercity Library Split, Croatia
2016: “Fractions”, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS in Armenia, Belgium, Brasil, Bulgary, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estland, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Hawaii, Italy, Japan, Morocco, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Rumenia, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, U.S.A, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Ukraine.