Limited Edition Print – Matheus Chiaratti, Lunch Poems, 2020
Matheus Chiaratti is an artist based in Sao Paulo, working with painting, textiles, photography, ceramics and literature. Shared and hidden desires, memories and journeys real or imagined, explorations into romances, religious artifacts and ornaments all coexist within the pictorial frame of Chiaratti’s unique practice.
During his time at Villa Lena, Mathues invoked the presence of the American poet Frank O’Hara (1926-1966). His experience of reading the City lights-published book “Lunch Poems” guided Chiaratti on a private and religious journey that resulted in the Southern Poet – a disorderly, intuitive and religious installation that charted the artist's experience with the poetry of Frank O’Hara in the light of Palaia. This print edition depicts the cover of the “Lunch Poems” pocketbook, he says ‘that lithography could be the summary of Southern Poet in a direct and simple way, I recreated the cover of O’Hara’s Lunch Poems in a quick drawing, marked by deep scratches and light carvings of crooked letters…’. A work that speaks of an admiration and understanding that transcends time.
Select exhibition history include: Quadra, Rio de Janeiro; Galerie21, Livorno; arte_passagem, São Paulo; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City,; Palazzo Monti, Brescia,; Galeria Sancovsky, São Paulo,); Convoi, Buenos Aires.
Villa Lena Foundation Print Editions- The Traditional Art of Printmaking with contemporary artists
Each year the Villa Lena Foundation works in collaboration with II Bisonte and a selection of contemporary artists on the Villa Lena residency programme in order to develop and produce a series of limited edition prints. Artists work with expert technicians to explore new techniques and push their practice into exciting and uncharted territory. A number of these unique prints are now available to purchase online.
Il Bisonte is a print-workshop for graphic arts founded in Florence in 1959 by Maria Luigia Guaita. Many artists – both Italian and non – accepted the invitation to work at Il Bisonte. including members of the Futurist movement -Gino Severini, Carlo Carrà, Alberto Magnelli, and such international stars as Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lipchitz, Helen Chadwick, Alexander Calder and Henry Moore. In 1983 Il Bisonte became a non-profit Cultural Centre and opened an international school, with the focus to preserve the teaching and printing of the traditional engraving techniques.
ALL PROCEEDS FROM PRINT SALES WILL GO TOWARDS SUPPORTING THE VILLA LENA FOUNDATION.
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While working on the Elvira print at the historical printmaking studio Il Bisonte, Sylvie Auvray surprised the technicians with the imaginative selection of materials and unconventional methods – rather than using the traditional etching pen on copper plate, she used different liquids in order to create imagery. The result was a large shape in the center of the work reminiscent of a ghostly spirit, so she named the print after Elvira –after the local legend of a young beauty who haunts the woods of Villa Lena.
€700,00
Gently resting on a mattress and wrapped in their bed sheets, Adeline’s “creatures” seem gently kissed by the peeking moonlight, while a grainy grayness invades the darker corners of their “incubedroom”. A window into their quiet intimacy. Adeline De Monseignat’s drawing that inspired this work, is the starting point for an installation that one day will become a reality.
€700,00
This print work by the American artist Alan Reid invites reasoning, provocation and negotiation of absurdist scenarios involving ideas around mass-produced Vogue covers, social realism and modern European masters.
€700,00
Beatrice Boyle limited edition print celebrates the female figure, reduced to a few simple lines, the colour recalls flesh in flat monochrome. Through a series of abstractions, the figure becomes removed from the original life drawings, paintings and sculptures it derived from – it becomes a symbol, a representation of its simplest form.
€500,00
