Correspondências a cultural exchange project that brings together students from the University of Belas Artes in São Paulo with young Italian and foreign artists, with residencies and an exhibition at the university venue, curated by Daniela Lorenzi and Helena Freddi.
Cinco artistas: Grandes formatos a traveling project, also hosted at SESC in Santo André, with large original graphics created by: Helena Freddi, Daniela Lorenzi, Francisco Josè Maringelli, Augusto Sampaio and Jacques Jesion.
Marco Fragonara officially accompanies Daniela Lorenzi, the art critic and historian gives several lectures on original art printmaking and engraving and presents the altelier on the occasion of the exhibition at Casa da Palavra:
Marco Fragonara_text of the presentation:
Research and meaning
Let us try to imagine for a moment that what happened in the Rome of 1521 is happening today in Milan, when an army of Lanzichenecchi put the city to fire and sword, causing devastating effects in the economy, in politics, but also in the ways of conceiving all existence. That traumatic event had also caused as a consequence the flight from the city of a great many artists, and among them several engravers who moved to other cities in Europe, leaving at the workshops of their Roman printers, plates, sheets and plans, the result of their many years of work. Those plates have with time come down to us and today are preserved at the National Chalcography of the Capital, bearing witness to their artistic research.
Similarly, if in our contemporary barbarism, a similar thing were to happen, of Atelier 14 - Grafica Upiglio 22250 in Milan there would remain plates, original prints, large formats, editions, books, folders of many artists and all those projects implemented in schools to make young people understand what research consists of.
Whoever worked in the rooms of the Atelier, however, maintained their own personality, confronting themselves in an artistic discourse, where the technique and the work of the two printers, Daniela Lorenzi and Daniele Upiglio, were put at the service of the result desired by the artist. This is a work of constant collaboration that is also open to galleries, Academies, public institutions and private individuals.
Certainly, they might strike the large formats, some coming to measure almost four meters, real titans of paper with the marks engraved from the plate with the most varied techniques.
And then books, folders and menabos for new editions, also the result of fruitful exchanges with other countries from one sea or ocean coast to another. Among these one glimpses works by young emerging artists who use technique, abandoning all momentary emotionality, but putting it at the service of the image in deliberate and clear procedures.
Free research, one would say today, but with precise rules to guarantee all freedom, including artistic freedom.
Finally, the work initiated by the Atelier with schools, Academies and Universities, in an alternation of tradition and innovation.
What, in fact, would tradition be without innovation? A sterile mummification and nothing more.
That is why, next to the rediscovered branches of an ancient artist, cleaned up and run through the press again, one can also observe digital prints, the result of contemporary technological means that make it possible to prepare menabos for ever new editions.
Bring to light, the French say to indicate the printing process that transfers the image from the plate to the sheet. Bring to light, precisely, the sense of research, the profound one that is embodied in the poetics of the Atelier and the artists who work there.
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