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27/02/2023
Three meetings of poetry and engraving

The artist's atelier, an undoubtedly evocative and fascinating place, is a storehouse of objects, tools and colors magically used and mixed. But when the work of art is not unique but conceived as a "multiple", how is it formed? What are the steps, techniques and tools that add up in its realization?

ALI (Associazione Liberi Incisori) intends to organize a series of meetings in which book artists will be the protagonists who will demonstrate their way of working in wood, linoleum and metal carving, as well as the particular procedure for drawing the lithographic stone as well as the drafting and composition on the black and color inking matrices. The Laboratorio Fratelli Manfredi  (via Del Pozzo 6/B, 42121 Reggio Emilia) can represent, due to its characteristics as an artisan workshop of art prints, the ideal "home workshop" to support creative artists who apply themselves to the creation of books. In agreement with Nicola Manfredi, a cycle of three meetings will be organized in his workshop to demonstrate to the interested public (scholars, collectors and the simple curious) how an "artist's edition" is born, i.e. a product that combines type-composed texts and images created with original graphic techniques, in a limited number of signed copies.

Three meetings are proposed, in the period April/May 2023, to be organized on three Saturday afternoons, dedicated to the three original printing techniques: relief (xylography and linocut), etching (direct and indirect engraving chalcography) and flat (lithography ). For each meeting, a cm. 35x25 format plaquette will be created directly in front of the public, with the engravings made to accompany a short text. The latter, giving further value to the work, will consist of unpublished poems by Samuele Di Saverio, Emilio Zucchi and Fabrizio Dall'Aglio. The matrices will be completed during the demonstration to the audience and immediately printed, as well as the texts, in part or in full already composed with movable types. This is to allow everything to be done in a maximum time of two hours or so. During the processing and printing of the matrices and texts, the authors of the poems and the artists themselves will be able to explain and deepen the meanings and methodologies of their works which come together in these plaquettes. It was decided to involve six ALI artists, two for each meeting, organizing this program from 3 to 5 pm.

1) April 15: xylography and linocut - two poems by Emanuele Di Saverio, a matrix engraved on wood by Fausto De Marinis, a matrix engraved on linoleum by Raffaello Margheri

2) April 29: drypoint and etching - two poems by Emilio Zucchi, a matrix engraved with etching and drypoint by Sandro Guizzardi, a matrix engraved with etching and aquatint by Liliana Santandrea

3) May 13: lithograph - two poems by Fabrizio Dall'Aglio, one stone for black and white designed by Agim Sako, one stone for black and one color designed by Stefano Grasselli

At the end of the cycle of meetings, the three plaquettes will be printed in a circulation of a few dozen copies, collected in a special container and destined as a gift to the supporting members of the ALI. The laboratory can accommodate up to twenty visitors at each meeting, who must book for each invitation made by ALI at least one or two weeks in advance.

20/02/2023
FIRE AIR EARTH WATER FOR THE SEER MANDRAKE, LANDSCAPE
A woodcut and an etching and drypoint on copper by Fausto De Marinis, engravings to be enjoyed by calmly deciphering them by one of the best contemporary peintre graveurs
24/12/2022
Chalcographic engraving course October/November 2022
These are the excellent engravings made by the participants. Respectively: GIULIANA MARCONI, Dolores, etching and aquatint with several bite marks; Bismantova mountain, soft wax and etching. MARIA GRAZIA MONTERMINI, Big tree, soft wax, etching and aquatint; Along the avenue, etching. DONATELLA ZANONI, The owl, etching with several etchings; Flight of the heron, soft wax and aquatint.
24/12/2022
GRAZING HORSES, THE PACK LEADER, LANDSCAPE 1, LANDSCAPE 2
Two beautiful and large pencil lithographs and two small etched landscapes by Mario Rosati, on handmade Velata paper by Magnani.
24/12/2022
St. CHRISTMAS
Don Pietro Bonometti, beautiful old-fashioned plain etching on copper, on Sicars Graphia paper of Catania, cm. 50x35
24/12/2022
FAREWELL TO WAR
Anna Bertani, clear flat etching, cm. 30x24, on Magnani 3030 paper cm.50x35.
24/12/2022
The tales of the Pergole Torte
In print for 2023, eight delicious short stories by Stefano Vincieri plus one by Federica Parretti on the magical coincidences and occasions born from the author's habit of tasting one of the best Italian wines, Le Pergole Torte from the Fattoria di Montevertine, created by Sergio Manetti and still produced today by his son Martino with increasing quality and success. The text is accompanied by six perfect line engravings by Alberto Manfredi, unpublished, and the reproduction of the labels of the vintages mentioned, from 1982 to today always entrusted to Manfredi's work. Quarto, text in letter press with Spectrum font drawn by Jan Van Krimpen in 1941 - new entry in Laboratorio - on Magnani paper hand made, with hardcover and leather spine, 45 numbered copies plus one reproduction edition, edition expected by the end of the year.
06/04/2021
IN PROJECT
Eight poems, from Il Bestiario by Arturo Loria (1959), with as many black woodcuts by Isabella Branella, Fabriano hand-made paper, 1970s production. In print between 2023 - 2024