Sigmar Polke: Untitled, 1975:
The basis of this image is one of a series of negatives exposed in a bar in São Paolo, Brazil, showing a group of men drinking, but Polke considers the darkroom a sort of alchemic laboratory in which he can explore infinite mutations of imagery. With the negative in his enlarger, the artist developed this large sheet selectively, pouring on photographic solutions and repeatedly creasing and folding the wet paper. The resulting abstract organic forms thus issue from and re-create the boozy, convivial energy of the scene.In the collection at The Met.
