Montefiore Conca. Again in my blog another post has this setting.
I have been
spending here two very intense weeks in a wonderful artist residency
– thanks
to Opificio della Rosa.
The printmaking
laboratory
is built
up in a corner of
the Middle Age castle of
Montefiore and
I
shared it with a German artist from UK, Thomas Gosebruch.
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| the printmaking lab in the castle |
We got on very well,
he was carving wood with his Tonkita machine while I drawned my
etchings in Copper Solphate. And
it
was really
a great chance to show him my work and hearing his opinion. Idea exchange is always a great way of growing up: I really believe in talking together, even if your work is very different.
Also, at night we went for walks near the wood together and looked for owls in the surroundings: one night we finally saw one flying toward us!
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| Thomas after all-day printing |
I worked 2 whole weeks on my project about forest and animals: the trees were made
by overlapping different
etchings,
and adding the animals at
the very end: I realized them with drypoint on plastic (that I really do not like
so much: I always prefer metal to plastic).
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| printing the first tree - etching on zinc plate |
I
was really happy about this time spent there: it gave me the chance to
really get concentrate on my project, completely and full-time. I went
in the lab in the morning and spent there the whole day printing and
etching. There were sometimes problems to solve but the situation and
the context were perfect for finding solutions.
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| finding the best solution... |
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| overlapping trees |
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| trying animals on plastic |
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| animals printed |
You can also see a very nice video of the finished project with animals here, thanks to
Jacopo.
They
say that there is Costanza ghost sometimes in the alleys of the
castles. I did not see her, but at night when I sometimes closed the
gate with the heavy iron chain, for sure I felt a breathtaking
suspance looking down at the sea and the orizon far away.
