Through the looking glass

Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints. The gallery Pretty Portal shows since 2007 Contemporary Art and Urban Art Street Artists annexing unasked public space to present their ideas and concepts. Inspired by her urban environment they create art that has recently been the world referred to as "urban art". gallery Pretty Portal offers "Urban Art" artists a space around their urban creations from the volatile His take out and give them a "safe" place for to give new directions. gallerist and curator Klaus Rosskothen seeks meeting with artists, whose works have the power to exist in isolation from their original urban environment. Pretty Portal sees itself as a meta-level between the road and the "White Cube" on these artists can show their work to the public. gallery Pretty Portal shows paintings, drawings, collages, photographs and sculptures.