Steps II
by Ivan Ninov
- Date:
- 1995
- Medium:
- Lithograph and screen print
- Dimensions:
- 52 × 53.5 cm
by Ivan Ninov
"Steps II" (1995) combines lithograph and screen print, two techniques Ninov employed both individually and in combination across his graphic output. The numeric suffix marks it as part of a sequence built around a single motif — "steps" likely denoting architectural stairs, ascending forms, or a more conceptual register of progression and stratification. The mixed-process construction layers the distinct visual properties of each medium: lithography contributes tonal range, drawn texture, and a worked ground, while silkscreen deposits flat, opaque planes of color through a stencil, producing crisp edges and saturated fields that read graphically against the lithographic substrate. This kind of cross-technique layering was characteristic of late twentieth-century Bulgarian printmaking, where Ninov and his contemporaries — Skorchev, Maystorov, Bozhkov — worked freely across media boundaries. Dated 1995, the print sits in the decade during which Ninov's international circulation was expanding through biennial exhibitions and the Japanese-Bulgarian exchanges that would feed into the 2003 Kyoto and Tokushima touring show.
Steps II was created by Ivan Ninov in 1995.
Steps II uses Silkscreen, on lithograph and screen print.
Steps II measures 52 × 53.5 cm.
