Accession Code: wu0874 Title: Black Square Date completed: 2003/2004 Classification: Print Medium: Etching Height (mm): 295 Width (mm): 293 Depth (mm): Inscription: Location Name: Mead Gallery Location Description: Location Floor:

 

Carnegie has taken this complex interplay between subject and medium to an extreme in her series of black paintings which are referenced here in a print. These night-time woodland scenes refer explicitly to Kasimir Malevich's infamous Black Square painting of 1913. But Carnegie counters the modernist tradition of the monochrome by placing a landscape within it.

This series of accomplished etchings was inspired by Carnegie's visit to Ponoka, a town in Alberta Province, Canada whose name is a transliteration of the native people’s word for Black Elk.