The graphic work CARMINA BURANA by Giuliano Collina

As part of a series of thematic explorations of contemporary artists connected to the Insubric region by birth or through their work, the exhibition at Spazio Officina focuses on an important graphic work by Giuliano Collina, *Carmina Burana*.

The title is directly linked, thematically, to the historical work of the same name, known to the general public primarily through the famous scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff between 1935 and 1936.

Giuliano Collina, an artist with diverse and profound cultural interests, created in 2004 a refined portfolio of ten large-format etchings and aquatints, inspired by a poem and interpreted artistically with great creative spirit.

All the works in the *Carmina Burana* print portfolio—including the plates, proofs, and drawings—were donated to the m.a.x. museum archive by collector Milly Brunelli Pozzi and artist Giuliano Collina. The exhibition, curated by Roberto Borghi and Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, presents not only the complete print series of the ten etchings and aquatints, but also the twenty copper plates used to print the work using a refined technique executed in Paolo Aquilini’s art print shop, as well as the forty-five preparatory states leading up to the final proof.

The exhibition also features ten large drawings corresponding to each illustration, created in pencil, ink, watercolor, and collage on paper. This allows visitors to witness the creative process behind each graphic work, revealing how Collina’s pictorial language—including through significant revisions—reconfigures the literary material according to principles that are, above all, chromatic.

Born in Intra in 1938, Giuliano Collina graduated from the Brera Academy in the early 1960s and has always maintained his studio in Como. Alongside his artistic career, he has developed extensive experience as a teacher, which led him to teach at the Cignaroli Academy in Verona and the University of Insubria in Como, as well as to collaborate on Mario Botta’s course at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture. A painter who has also devoted himself to sculpture, he has cultivated a special interest in the language of engraving, in which he achieves levels of pure lyricism.

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