MICHAL MACKU
Since the end of 1989, the Czech artist Michal Macku has been creating his works using a technique of his own invention, called Gellage and officially described in the volume published by Taschen “20th Century Photography“.
This unique procedure consists in tearing off the gelatin emulsion from the photographic film during printing. Starting in 2007, after more than ten years of constant experimentation, Michal Macku reaches the three-dimensionality in analogic photography, taking advantage of the transparency of the glass and creating the “Glass-Gellage”.
The artist works with a special block of tempered glass produced in Germany, subdivided into multiple glass sheets, on each of which he imprints two photographic techniques in the darkroom: the gellage and the carbon print.
Recently, the artist began experimenting with colors and large dimensions, creating for the first time color glass gellages, both in standard and monumental sizes.
GLASS GELLAGES
Glass gellage LXXII
2022
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 20 x 40 x 15 ca. / inches 7,8 x 15,7 x 5,9 ca.
Glass gellage LXXXI
2022
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 20,5 x 29 x 15 ca. / inches 8 x 11,4 x 5,9 ca.
Glass gellage LII
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 33 x 23 x 14 ca. / inches 13 x 9 x 5,5 ca.
Glass gellage LXVIII
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 38 x 38 x 8 ca. / inches 15 x 15 x 3,2 ca.
Glass gellage LIII
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 38 x 23 x 14 ca. / inches 13 x 9 x 5,5 ca.
Glass gellage XXXII
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 27,8 x 31,6 x 14,5 ca. / inches 10,9 x 12,4 x 5,7 ca.
Glass gellage LXXXII (Tenebra subulata blue shell)
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 14 x 62 x 13 ca. / inches 5,5 x 24,4 x 5,1 ca.
Glass gellage LXXXIX (Nautilus blue)
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 24 x 33 x 14 ca. / inches 9,4 x 13 x 5,5 ca.
Glass gellage XC (Golden man figure in red )
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 30 x 39 x 7 ca. / inches 11,8 x 15,3 x 2,7 ca.
Glass gellage XCI (Silver woman figure in blue)
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 30 x 40 x 7 ca. / inches 11,8 x 15,7 x 2,7 ca.
Glass gellage XCIII (Argonauta hians – 6 ble shells)
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 99 x 113 x 15 ca. / inches 39 x 44,5 x 5,9 ca.
Glass gellage LXIV
2018
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 200 x 40 x 40 ca. / inches 70 x 15,7 x 15,7 ca.
Glass gellage LVII
2017
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 19 x 126 x 15 ca. / inches 7.4 x 49 x 6 ca.
Glass gellage XLVI (Diptych)
2017
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 30 x 31 x 9 ca. cad. / inches 11.8 x 12.2 x 3.5 ca. cad.
Glass gellage XLIV (Triptich)
2014
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 60 x 60 x 6.5 ca. / inches 23.6 x 23.6 x 2.6 ca.
Glass gellage IV
2006
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 39 x 31 x 4 ca. / inches 15.4 x 12.2 x 1.6 ca.
Glass gellage XXX
2009
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 38 x 43 x 10 ca. / inches 14.9 x 16.9 x 3.9 ca.
Glass gellage III
2013
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 50 x 60 x 4.5 ca. / inches 19.6 x 23.6 x 17.7 ca.
Glass gellage XI
2007
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 49 x 24 x 10 ca. / inches 19.2 x 9.5 x 3.9 ca.
Glass gellage XXXIII
2010
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 19 x 48 x 12 ca. / inches 7.3 x 18.9 x 4.7 ca.
Glass gellage LXXI
2020
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 28 x 33 x 16 ca. / inches 11 x 12,9 x 6,2 ca.
Glass gellage XXXI
2016
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 30 x 120 x 10 ca. / inches 11.8 x 47.2 x 3.9 ca.
Glass gellage XLIX
2015
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 49 x 100 x 10 ca. / inches 19.3 x 39.3 x 3.9 ca.
Glass gellage VII
2006
gellage and carbon print on glass
cm 40 x 50 x 5 ca. / inches 15.7 x 19.7 x 2 ca.
GELLAGE
Gellage 6
1989
gellage
cm 73 x 61 ca. / inches 28.7 x 24 ca.
Gellage 11
1989
gellage
cm 73 x 61 ca. / inches 28.7 x 24 ca.
Gellage 5
1989
gellage
cm 61 x 73 ca. / inches 24 x 28.7 ca.
Gellage 7
1989
gellage
cm 61 x 73 ca. / inches 24 x 28.7 ca.
Gellage 44
1993
gellage
cm 73 x 61 ca. / inches 28.7 x 24 ca.
Gellage 93
1996
gellage
cm 73 x 61 ca. / inches 28.7 x 24 ca.
