Richard Prince
Henzel Studio’s collaboration with Richard Prince represents one of the studio’s most significant artist-led dialogues. Initiated in 2013 with 1234-5678-910 and continued with 1967 (2013 / 2026), the collaboration brings together two works developed exclusively for Henzel Studio. Presented together, they form a rare and sustained exchange between Prince’s practice and the hand-knotted rug as a contemporary artistic medium.
Both works can be understood as an extension of Prince’s broader 1-2-3-4 works on paper, in which found photographic images are arranged through systems of counting, grouping and repetition. In these works, numbers are not simply markers of order. They become compositional devices, interruptions and codes, shifting the image away from narrative and toward sequence, rhythm and cultural association.
This logic is central to Prince’s practice. Since the late 1970s, he has worked with imagery drawn from mass media, advertising, entertainment and vernacular American culture, using cropping, editing, sequencing and re-presentation to challenge ideas of authorship, originality and context. Through Henzel Studio’s process, these questions enter another register. The speed and circulation of found imagery are reconfigured through the slow, exacting and materially complex process of hand-knotting.
The result is not a decorative translation of existing artwork, but a continuation of Prince’s inquiry through surface, scale, material and time. The rug becomes a site where image and object meet, where repetition is given physical structure, and where Prince’s visual language is reconsidered through pile, relief, carving and material density.
Image: RICHARD PRINCE, 1967, 2013 / 2026 (in-situ)
