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The Ideal City, Artist book workshop in Linocut and letterpress
Nick Morley and Umberto Giovannini
Typography in collaboration with Anonima Impressori
June 12-16, 2019 Fabriano
Club House of the Cartiere di Fabriano
Umberto Giovannini and Nick Morley have been working for years in the field of illustration and artist’s book and together collaborating on several projects including the Vacuum Editions collection.
On the occasion of the UNESCO Creative Cities Meeting held in Fabriano, they were invited to design this 5-day workshop that will bring you into the world of illustration and artist’s book by creating original linocut prints and printing with lead typefaces. The artist book project will be addressed starting from the topic “The ideal city”, the subject of UNESCO’s Meeting. Each participant will realise his artist book printed in a small edition.
You will design your book coordinated by Nick and Umberto then Umberto will follow typography, edition and binding and Nick will work with you making the illustration in linocut.
Umberto Giovannini – After studying Graphic Communication Design, he graduated from the DAMS in Bologna and began dedicating his time to graphic art.
He is a founding member of the art group, VACA.
Since 2009, he has directed the Opificio Della Rosa low-environmental impact printmaking centre.
He is in particular attracted to woodcut, in relation to which he has developed personal carving and printing techniques.
His prints and artists’ books can be found in international collections.
His personal, study and research work is supplemented by teaching.
He is currently Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and Visiting Professor at the RUFA, Rome University of Fine Arts.
He is the president of Renate Herold Czaschka Foundation dedicated to artist book and printmaking.
As a graphics historian, he has been called upon to organize various exhibitions and has planned a series of books dedicated to engraving and illustration.
Nick Morley is an artist and illustrator who specialises in linocut. He runs Hello Print Studio in Margate and teaches regular workshops around the UK. Nick’s illustrations have appeared on book and magazine covers and his prints are collected internationally. In 2016 his book, Linocut for Artists and Designers, was published by Crowood Press.
Non toxic / low-tech. Cardboard Drypoint
Jenny Robinson
28-30 giugno 2019
Castle of Montefiore Conca
This workshop focuses on a completely non-toxic, economical and low-tech approach to make carton calcification matrices using direct etching techniques.
This method allows the artist to quickly create complex images with the ability to use a wide variety of tonal signs and variations without the use of expensive or toxic products, such as copper, acid and rosin.
The cardboard matrices made with the techniques that will teach Jenny Robinson can be realized in a fraction of the time would be used for a traditional chalcography.
In this workshop will be given the tools to face a personal experimentation both for the preparation of the matrix and for the printing phases.
Jenny Robinson’s work is informed by her immediate surroundings, where she lives, works and goes has a direct impact on the subject matter she is drawn to.
Her work for the past 2 decades has been a personal documentation of our rapidly changing urban environments
Robinson’s Studio in San Francisco, based in an area of postindustrial decline and populated by architecture on the periphery of people’s vision, is, like many other areas of the world, undergoing huge changes and gentrification. Her work reflects and builds on her own visual experience of the constant cycle of demolition and re development around her.
Cards of the interior. Paper-making and relief-print workshop
by Veronica Azzinari and Lorenzo Santoni
4-7 July 2019
Montefiore Castle
In this workshop each participant will be given the skills to make handmade cotton paper through the ancient manufacturing process and will investigate 3 different techniques:
– a black sheet made with embossing
– a white sheet with an original watermark made by the participant
– a white sheet with a red woodcut that each student will design, carve and print
This workshop is dedicated to paper making through some of the typical languages and media used: the paper as a container of stories, as a cradle for our emotions and confessions, in an experience that will not only be focused on the techniques but also to the exploration of intimate and mysterious areas of our inner selves.
We will play in this journey of our inner part by metaphorically riding three horses, a black one called Nigredo, a white one called Albedo and a red one called Rubedo.
They possess the fundamental laws of the 3 alchemical inner path we will discover during this experience and that we will use to create our hand-made paper.
You will make a black paper to talk about Nigredo: a inner path linked to the self-reflection and destruction of all the masks that hide our psyche in the darkness and that prevent us from living our essence.
A “tactile” image created with the use of pressure or through dot-making will tell the story of black paper.
A white paper will be for Albedo. This is the inner path in which the individual lets the previously destroyed parts dissolve and leaves room for a new awareness of themselves. A new something begins to emerge that is as delicate as an image seen against light. We will use for this inner path a white paper made with watermarks.
A white paper printed in red is for Albedo: the passage connected to light and fire. Here, the individual no longer experiences the separation between themselves and the other, because they understand that inside them is the same source of life that connects us to the universe.
Veronica Azzinari was born in Milan in 1986 and graduated in 2006 in the Animation Film at ISA, Scuola del libro of Urbino.
In 2011 she began a personal research through the technique of intaglio.
Since 2010 she exhibited in various cities in Italy, publishes for magazines such as “Lo Straniero”, “La Lettura” and ” I Quaderni del Teatro di Roma” and works as an illustrator with some groups of the Italian independent music scene.
He leads the laboratory of intaglio at “Corte della Miniera” in Urbino.
“To Dig”, a slow gesture to retrace the human and not human mark, for stay in unexplored area and go deep. This is my attitude in life and in art, like a ritual that find its cradle on etching. From the furrow surface the origins maps were I can place the stories of the plants, mountain, wind, water…the alphabet of the nature. I “gather” sign about our origin in the damp places were lives mosses and fern…they describe the story about the sea that was.
I use the etching techniques in experimental approach and I create the interesting meet between matter (mud, leaves, roots, mold….) and slab. I attend that the Natural matter release his trace on slab slowly. I use a ecologic acid and sometime I change the position of the natural matter. I print on handmade cotton paper. My paper seems irregular and scraped and call to mind an ancient maps.
Lorenzo Santoni was born in Fabriano in 1991.
In 2012, for 6 months, he decided to take part of an internship at the “Museo della Carta e della Filigrana” in Fabriano, and then carrying on at the museum as a volunteer.
In 2013 (September-December) he attended the “Doing business with paper” class organized by UNESCO, Fondazione Merloni, ISTAO and Fondo Sociale Europeo.
From February 2014 he moved to New York for 4 months and worked at “Dieu donné NYC papermill”, an artistic paper factory located in the Garment District of Manhattan.
After these experiences, in June 2014 he decided to start his own practice creating the “Lorenzo Santoni Handmade Paper” brand.
On January 2019 he started a partnership with “Viceversa Soc.Coop.”.
My passion for paper making probably comes from the city I grew up in: Fabriano. A city known all over the World for its handmade paper procution and the historical Museo della Carta e della Filigrana.
It’s thanks to the museum, where I took part of an internship, that I improved the manufacturing technic and mastered the first business bases.
Deciding to move to New York let me approach the paper making process with an artistic point of view, and all of these experienceses allowed me to offer my personal brand “Lorenzo Santoni Handmade Paper” in an entirely innovative way: my aim has been in fact, since the beginning but also thanks to the new partnership with “Viceversa Soc.Coop.”, that of joining the concept of tradition, development and art in a single item, mine.
Woodcut Reduction
Umberto Giovannini
12-14 July 2019
Castle of Montefiore Conca
Fully booked
The woodcut reduction is one of the most popular techniques both for the European and Japanese woodcut masters, because it is the woodcut technique which allows a playful and inventive approach step by step.
The name “reduction” comes from the working process: a woodblock is carved and printed in a number of copies. The same block continues to be carved and printed in register on the same sheet, with a different color, step by step, color after color, until the block is exhausted.
This technique is wonderful to create tonal effects, such as landscapes and figures, to obtain very soft gradations of chiaroscuro.
This technique is wonderful to create tonal effects such as landscapes and figures to obtain very soft gradations of chiaroscuro.
The the workshop will include invention of the drawing for reduction, its transposition to the block, and creation of the intaglio. Attendees will be taught to use a special body posture intaglio technique, in order to develop high precision and speed. Finally, will be taught the basic techniques of inking and printing, specific for this technique.
In reduction technique is very important the use of registration: in this workshop will be used double Kento derived from the Japanese printing technique.
Umberto Giovannini – After studying Graphic Communication Design, he graduated from the DAMS in Bologna and began dedicating his time to graphic art.
He is a founding member of the art group, VACA.
Since 2009, he has directed the Opificio Della Rosa low-environmental impact printmaking centre.
He is in particular attracted to woodcut, in relation to which he has developed personal carving and printing techniques.
His prints and artists’ books can be found in international collections.
His personal, study and research work is supplemented by teaching.
He is currently Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and Visiting Professor at the RUFA, Rome University of Fine Arts.
He is the president of Renate Herold Czaschka Foundation dedicated to artist book and printmaking.
As a graphics historian, he has been called upon to organize various exhibitions and has planned a series of books dedicated to engraving and illustration.
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Burin on copper symposium
Koichi Yamamoto
28 August – 1 Septembre 2019
Castle of Montefiore
This course is only for those who have practice in intaglio techniques.
This year the symposium will be conducted by the Japanese master Koichi Yamamoto one of the major contemporary burinist who will teach his particular engraving technique.
A preliminary phase deals with preparation of the plate and methods of sharpening the tools. The central part of the course involves experimentation with different techniques of burin engraving on copper: morphology of the sign; the relationship between heavy and light signs; the rhythmicity of the hatching and the intersecting undulations of 16th century engravings; the synthetic linear sign. The course concludes with the final phase of inking, cleaning and printing the matrix.
The symposium is designed as a moment of work and artistic exchange, to keep alive an art as complex as wonderfully fascinating. We will work and live together at the Castello di Montefiore Conca.
Koichi Yamamoto is an artist who merges traditional and contemporary techniques so as to develop unique and innovative approaches to the language of printmaking. His prints explore issues of the sublime, memory, and atmosphere. Koichi has worked at many scales, from small and meticulously engraved copper plates to large monotypes.
He completed a BFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon and then moved to Krakow, Poland, later he studied engraving at the Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts in the Slovak Republic. Koichi also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland and completed an MFA at the University of Alberta, Canada. In addition he has worked as a textile designer in Fredericia, Denmark.
Koichi has exhibited internationally. He has taught at Utah State University and the University of Delaware and is currently an Associate Professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.