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Discovering images, signals, fragments and words in the books of B**K trough a game path – individual project between original printmaking and bookbinding
To observe, recognize, select, process, revise, recompose, create a layout.
The basic abc of original printmaking and bookbinding as tools to design and reinterpret the content of existing books with your own personal sensitivity and lexicon.
After a first phase of analysis of the books made available by the Spazio B**k bookshop, within which participants will choose images and signs they intend to use in their projects, the program involves the preparation of the matrices which will then be used for the printing of one or more small editions in the form of a book made in Gumprint*/Monotypy/ Relief engraving with the etching press and/or by hand with the baren, then folded in the form of a single-sheet book with extremely effective solutions.
* GUMPRINT: Experimental technique in the original printmaking, the gumprint (or rubber printing) is a technique with relatively poor means (a sheet of paper processed with a fatty substance or a laser photocopy, shellac and arabic gum) allows us to create a very limited edition of prints; it is nothing else than the application of the traditional lithographic process starting from a paper matrix, rather than stone. The treated sheet or photocopy then becomes the matrix for the printing with the etching press.
The workshop is aimed at graphic designers, designers, students, illustrators, teachers interested in the world of bookbinding and printmaking.
It is not necessary to already have experience, even if good manual skills are obviously helpful.
LOCATION
The course will find place in the seat of Spazio BK,
Via Porro Lambertenghi, 20 - 20159 MILAN - I
TIMETABLE
Lessons will take place as follows:
Friday evening from 7-10 pm; Saturday and Sunday 9h30-6h30 pm, with about one hour lunch break.
PROGRAM
I° DAY – Friday 19 October, 7/10 pm
Intro - Presentation of bindings and printing techniques; analysis of selected books in the bookstore; selection of images / clues, mounting and collage of the clues
II° DAY – Saturday 20 October, 9,30am/6,30 pm
Printing workshop - Preparation of matrices: gumprint, printing in black with the etching press
III° DAY – Sunday 21 October, 9,30am/6,30 pm
Printing workshop - Color printing by hand: monotypy / rubber stamps
Bookbinding workshop - Folding and assembly of small book editions
PARTICIPATION FEE
230 euro including materials and the use of tools provided by the teachers.
Enrolment: from 9 July to 14 October, 2018.
More information and enrolments:
BOOKS TRACKS B**K
tel. +39 02 8706 3126
info@spaziobk.com
MATERIALS
For the printing activity, the workshop will have a printing area equipped with an etching press and barens, and participants will be provided with all the basic materials for the making of their own project (tools, paper, colors, etc...).
Each participant will have a basic set of bookbinding tools in use.