The graphic work CARMINA BURANA by Giuliano Collina
Inserted in the vein of thematic insights into contemporary artists linked by birth or operation to the Insubric territory, the exhibition held at Spazio Officina features a focus on an important graphic work by Giuliano Collina, Carmina Burana.
The title is thematically directly related to the historical composition of the same name, known to the general public mostly for the famous stage cantata composed by Carl Orff between 1935 and 1936.
Giuliano Collina, an artist with varied and profound cultural interests, created in 2004 a refined portfolio of ten large-format etchings in etching and aquatint, which arose from the suggestion of poetic composition and artistically interpreted with great creative spirit.
All the works of the Carmina Burana graphic folder, the matrices and state proofs as well as the drawings, were donated to the m.a.x. museum archives by collector Milly Brunelli Pozzi and artist Giuliano Collina. The exhibition, curated by Roberto Borghi and Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, presents, in addition to the entire graphic folder of the ten etchings and aquatints, the twenty copperplates that allowed the work to be printed with a refined technique performed in Paolo Aquilini's art print shop and the forty-five preparatory states up to the bon à tirer.
Also on display in the exhibition are ten large drawings referring to each panel, made in pencil, India ink, watercolor and collage on paper. In this way it is possible to witness the unfolding of the creative process from which each graphic work was generated: the way in which Collina's pictorial language, through also significant rethinking, reconfigures literary matter according to primarily chromatic principles comes to light.
Born in Intra in 1938, Giuliano Collina graduated from the Brera Academy in the early 1960s and has always had his studio in Como. Alongside his artistic activity, he developed a long teaching experience that led him to teach at the Cignaroli Academy in Verona and the University of Insubria in Como, and to collaborate on Mario Botta's course at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio. A painter who has also devoted himself to sculpture, he has cultivated a special interest in the language of engraving in which he reaches levels of pure lyricism.
OPENING:
Mon: Closed / Closed / Geschlossen / Fermé
Tue... Fri: 14:00 - 18:00
Sat... Sun: 10:00 - 12:00 / 14:00 - 18:00
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