Volaverunt Goya’s engravings revisited by the contemporary eye Temporary exhibition

TheyAvailThemselves is a fanzine-inspired publication that deconstructs the scene of the missing engraving. Marcos Prior (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1975) isolates and singles out some of its parts through close-ups, and focuses on the looks and gestures of each of the six characters, victims and executioners, who make up the macabre lost image.

This is an edition, numbered and signed by the author, printed in the workshops of Máquina Total (Barcelona) in risography, a technique devised in the 1950s for duplicating originals, halfway between mechanical and digital printing.

In the engraved series, Goya experiments with the various possibilities of graphic production, with a combination of procedures that incorporate etching, aquatint, drypoint and burin, among others. He engraves as if he were painting, while making strides towards the possibilities of contemporary engraving. With TheyAvailThemselves, Prior recovers a form of reproduction in which each copy is a unique and original piece, as happens with prints, since the colour spots of the two combined inks vary in each of the prints.

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