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ETCHINGS by ISABELLA BRANELLA - Selected works by an extraordinary graphic artist

This collection of intaglio works by Isabella Branella, albeit limited, aims to offer a satisfactory taste of the artist's qualities in the field of metal engraving, expressed in the time span between the beginning of his collaboration with the Laboratorio and today. Her engravings illustrate some of our most beautiful editions (here in the catalogue), many others in loose sheet testify to a constancy in the themes, in the skills gradually refined, in the aesthetic rendering that is always very effective. Other online exhibitions of his linocut and lithographic works will follow, techniques in which Branella excels and with which she made excellent sheets.

Arnoldo Manfredi

Isabella Branella engraves and paints in Giulianova, where she lives and works. A pupil of Alberto Manfredi at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, she carried out part of her artistic activity in the F.lli Manfredi Laboratory in Reggio Emilia, creating chalcographic engravings, linocuts, lithographs and illustrated editions.

Since 1993 he has participated in various competitions and exhibitions.

In 1997 he made a drypoint engraving for the Mavida edition of the novel Good day, said Giorgio entering by Cesare Zavattini.

In 2002 one of his drypoint accompanied the special edition of Il paradosso sull'attore by Denis Diderot, published by La Vita Felice of Milan in collaboration with the Friends of Leonardo Sciascia. He participated, at the invitation of the jury, in the third edition of the Sciascia "Amateur d’Estampes" Award and made two recordings for that year's Almanacco di Italia Nostra.

In 2005 he painted fifteen pictures for Fiori di Maggio, a collection of sonnets by Yzu (a work published for the types of Mavida) and five etchings for the book Rimbaud the son by Pierre Michon (Mavida edition, distributed by Passigli Editori). In May 2006 he participated in the Bajo Flores Project The stories save life with a mixed media engraving. Two more of his soft and drypoint etchings will be featured in the 2007 Almanacco di Italia Nostra.

The lost conscience by Saltykov Scedrin is from 2011, with 7 original etchings, including 5 drypoint and ceramolle in b/w and two color linocuts, Mavida Edizioni.

Since 2018 he has participated in the exhibitions organized by ALI (Association of free engravers):

ENVIRONMENTS OF ITALY (November 2018 - Passerini-Landi Library of Piacenza)

SELF-REPRESENTATION (March 2019 - inauguration of the exhibition of etchings by Eduard Manet in the upper room of Cà Ghironda, in the nearby "Spazio Atelier" of the museum)

MAESTRI INCISORI IN FAENZA (November 2019 - exhibition in the Pinacoteca with 48 works by the members of the free engravers association)

Exhibition of woodcuts by ALI artists at the Labirinto della Masone - October 2020

BETWEEN DREAMS AND REALITY (June - September 2021 - Ca 'la Ghironda, Sala dei Contemporanei)

LABYRINTH - FROM PRISON TO PLEASURE (October, Labirinto della Masone, Sala Bodoni)

sexYbooks - Books seduce (December 2019 - Musei Civici, C-Lab, Reggio Emilia)

CALL FOR A VIRTUAL ARCHIVE, Book de Artist Festival 2020 - Barcelona

"LIBERTÀ VA CERCANDO, CH’È SÌ CARA  ..." - First International Biennial of Engraving and Sculpture CELOMMI AWARD 2019

"AMOR MI MOSSE" - Second International Biennial of Engraving and Sculpture CELOMMI AWARD 2021 - (Celommi Foundation Mention)

1) Deer
1998, drypoint on Oxford seat, 7/7, plate cm. 17x13,3, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 50x35. Edited by Mavida.
2) Cat at the harbour
2000, drypoint and aquatint, p.d.a., plate cm. 11,5x9, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 25x17,5, edited by Mavida.
3) My cat
2000, etching and ceramolle (soft wax), p.d.a., plate cm. 8,7x10,5, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 17.5x25.
4) The wait
2001, drypoint, p.d.a., plate cm. 49.8x34.7, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 60x40. https://www.laboratoriofratellimanfredi.it/antologia/14/Il+grido+del+gatto+-+2003%2c+Nicola+Manfredi
5) Golgota
2000, drypoint, 3/8, plate cm. 61x47, Fabriano sheet cm. 69x52.5, edited by Mavida. https://www.laboratoriofratellimanfredi.it/antologia/14/The+cat%27s+cry+-+2003%2c+Nicola+Manfredi
6) The cat's cry
2001, drypoint, 6/9, plate cm. 58x45, Fabriano sheet cm. 69x49. See here https://www.laboratoriofratellimanfredi.it/antologia/14/The+cat%27s+cry+-+2003%2c+Nicola+Manfredi
7) Distant melodies
2002, etching, ceramolle (soft wax) and drypoint, p.d.a., plate cm. 21,2x16,6, Fabriano Rosaspina sheet cm. 26,7x21,5.
8) The ambush
2003, p.d.a., etching, ceramolle (soft wax) and drypoint, plate cm. 24,5x17,3, Fabriano sheet cm. 35x25.
9) Violence
2003, etching, ceramolle (soft wax) and drypoint, p.d.a., plate cm. 24,5x17,5, Fabriano Rosaspina sheet cm. 35x25.
10) Inertia
2004, drypoint, p.d.a., plate cm. 21,2x16,7, Fabriano Rosaspina sheet cm. 26x19,5.
11) Melancholy games
2004, VII / X, etching, ceramolle (soft wax) and drypoint, plate cm. 29,5x19,5, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 50x35, edited by Mavida. Participation in the Sciascia Award 2003/2004.
12) Rimbaud, the son
2005, drypoint, p.d.a., plate cm. 15,8x11, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 25x17,5. See here https://www.laboratoriofratellimanfredi.it/catalogo/54/Michon+Pierre
13) Amara
2005, ceramolle (soft wax) and drypoint, 7/10, plate cm. 23,5x17,8, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 50x35, edited by Mavida.
14) Squeezed in my NO
2006, ceramolle (soft wax) and drypoint, p.d.a., plate cm. 29,7x24, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 35x25.
15) Empty to lose
2006, ceramolle (soft wax) and drypoint, 1/10, plate cm. 29.5x23.7, Magnani sheet 3030 cm. 50x35, edited by Mavida.
16) Strange dialogues
2006, ceramolle (soft wax) and drypoint, 9/10, plate cm. 29.5x19.5, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 50x35, edited by Mavida.
17) Unnameable self-portrait
2008, aquatint and drypoint, 1/10, plate cm. 24x29,5, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 35x50, edited by Mavida.
18) A sweet secret
2010, drypoint, p.d.a., plate cm. 39,8x29,5, Fabriano sheet cm. 49x34,5.
19) The tightrope walker
2013, drypoint, p.d.a., plate cm. 21,5x16,2, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 35x25.
20) Rose in the moonlight
2013, etching, ceramolle (soft wax) and drypoint, 7/10, plate cm. 18x12,8, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 35x25.
21) The leap into the void
2014, etching and drypoint, 5/10, plate cm. 34,7x24,5, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 50x35.
22) The child
2017, ceramolle (soft wax) and electric drill, 3/10, plate cm. 14,8x10, Magnani sheet 3030 cm. 25x17,5, edited by Mavida.
23) Self-portrait - I am a tympanum
2019, drypoint, 3/10, plate cm. 50x34,5, Sicars Graphia sheet cm. 50x70, edited by Mavida.
24) On the green river Po
2020, ceramolle (soft wax) and drypoint, 9/12, plate cm. 66,5x23,8, Chinese paper sheet by Wuan cm. 69x34,5, edited by F.lli Manfredi Laboratory.
Coming art shows
21/12/2024 - 02/03/2025 THE POSTERS - All the posters created by Mavida and the Laboratorio F.lli Manfredi