Helge Roed: Energy of Silence, 1978 — one screenprint from the portfolio One colour screenprint (serigraph) from the portfolio Energy of Silence, published and hand-printed by Edition Partanen in Brenden, West Germany, 1978. The composition builds a near-symmetrical field of five vertical bands — red, white, deep blue, white, red — and then breaks that symmetry: a saturated red square displaces the lower right quadrant, cutting the fourth band short and tipping the balance of the plane. The result is a reductive, hard-edge composition in the Constructive tradition, where a single shifted element sets the otherwise static field in motion — the "energy" disturbing the "silence" of the title. The portfolio was issued in an edition of 60, with five artist's proofs. This impression is numbered 15/60. Each sheet in the series measures 45 × 45 cm at the image and is individually signed and numbered by the artist. Hand-signed and dated in pencil lower right ("Helge Roed 78"); numbered in pencil lower left. Helge Roed (born Oslo, 1938) is a Norwegian painter, sculptor and graphic artist working in a reductive, Constructive idiom. He has held one-man shows including sculpture projects for the Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, and Gallery F 15, Moss, alongside painting exhibitions at Den Frie, Copenhagen; 20 Pall Mall, London; Galleri Nordenhake Rykken, Oslo; and Malmö. He has taken part in numerous international group exhibitions in the field of Concrete and serial art. Selected exhibitions: 5th International Drawing Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka International Graphics, Fredrikstad Concretists, Sønderjylland Kunstmuseum, Tønder Serial Works — Contemporary Art in Private Collections, Gallery of the Museum, Szeged, and Csók István Gallery, Székesfehérvár Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm XVI Premi Internacional de Dibuix Joan Miró, Barcelona and Pamplona Maximal-minimal, International Workgroup for Constructive Art, Helsinki Art 9'78, Basel Year: 1978 Technique: Colour screenprint (serigraph), hand-printed Edition: 60, plus 5 artist's proofs — this impression 15/60 Signature: Hand-signed and dated in pencil lower right; numbered in pencil lower left Dimensions: Image 45 × 45 cm · Condition: excellent Provenance: Published by Edition Partanen, Brenden, West Germany, 1978