750 Years of Western Paper: carrying knowledge, spreading culture, connecting peoples
ON VIEW NOV 20 – DECEMBER 20 (by appointment): ( click here )
The exhibit will include a selection of watermarks from 1301 to today. A section of the exhibit will be dedicated to the relationship between paper and art through the comparison of Italian and American contemporary artists.
ITALIAN ARTISTS
AMERICAN ARTISTS
Luigi Bartolini
Guerrino Lovato
Roberto Mannino
Angela Occhipinti
Roberto Stelluti
Anna Uncini
Sirio Bellucci
Nancy Cohen
Joan Hall
Mary Hark
Michelle Samour
Patterson Clark
Lynn Sures
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Alberto Tallone Editore
Prior to this exhibit opening a panel discussion The Art of Papermaking in Italy & the U.S. is scheduled at the Corcoran Gallery of Art on November 18, 2013 at 7:00 PM.
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LOCATION
Embassy of Italy
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
RSVP FOR THE OPENING ON NOVEMBER 20
Reservations available until November 20, 2013 at 2 PM
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capacity or by the event’s date and time above (whichever comes
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NO PARKING AVAILABLE ON PREMISES(LIMITED STREET PARKING)
ON VIEW – BY APPOINTMENT ONLY:
NOVEMBER 20 – DECEMBER 20
November 20 through December 20, 2013
(Monday to Friday from 10am-12/2pm-4pm)
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY: email reservations requests at iicwashington@esteri.it
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The Italian artists in the exhibit: artist, poet, and writer Luigi Bartolini of Cupramontana, considered one of the most eclectic figures of 20th century Italian culture, is present with two works, including the engraving dedicated to daughter Luciana which in 1932 shared first prize with Giorgio Morandi at the Italian Etchings Show at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence; Guerrino Lovato of Venice, whose stucco and paper works embellish the majestic La Fenice theaterin Venice; Italian-American Roberto Mannino; Angela Occhipinti, formerly of the Brera Accademia di Belle Arti; and two Fabriano artists, Anna Unicini and Sirio Bellucci, nominated by the InArte Cultural Association of Fabriano.
The six American artists whose works have been chosen for this event:
Nancy Cohen and Joan Hall, noted for their large scale paper installations; Mary Hark and her special multicoloured surfaces; Michelle Samour creator of installations using brilliant, translucent papers; Patterson Clark, who researches plant sources for fibers and colors; Lynn Sures, polyhedric artist and teacher at the Corcoran College of Art and Design for over ten years, who serves as the ‘ambassador’ of Fabriano paper in the USA for her valued collaboration with the Fabriano Museum of Paper and Watermarks established here in Washington in 2002.
A special place in this exhibition has been dedicated to Roberto Stelluti, a Fabriano artist of international renown and a descendant of Francesco Stelluti, famed friend of Galileo Galilei, and co-founder of the Accademia dei Lincei, the oldest academy of sciences in the world. On display are 4 engravings by Roberto and the original of the sonnet written by Francesco, In lode della carta [in praise of paper] from his Persio, printed in 1630, which is considered to this day one of the most significant tributes to the importance of Fabriano’s papermaking tradition.
At the historic printing house in Alpignano (TO) founded by his father, Alberto, Enrico Tallone has reproduced by hand a special edition of the Manuale Tipografico sulle carte e sugli inchiostri [Typographic Manual on Papers and Inks] that is printed on handmade paper produced by Fabriano’s master artisans of the Museum of Paper and Watermarks. This precious volume is being donated by the City of Fabriano to the United States Library of Congress, the repository of many volumes printed on paper manufactured in Fabriano. The donation will remain as a reminder of this celebration of Fabriano’s “artigenius” in the nation’s capital.
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