Exhibition PHOTOGRAVURE presenting works created during the Copper Plate Photogravure workshop
2024.11.11
12–30 November 2024
Arosita Gallery, 12B Vrabcha Street, Sofia
The workshop on photogravure, led by Fatima Konesa, took place in the Printmaking Base at the National Academy of Art with the participants showing great interest and creative energy. Students, doctoral students and teachers (programmes in Printmaking, Photography, Ceramics and Mural Painting at the National Academy of Art) were united by a creative experiment with the technique and printing.
Participants in the workshop and exhibition
Aleksandar Iliev, Anika Lipsius, Venelin Bonchev, Viktor Hristov, Iva Kazashka, Ivan Stefanov, Isabel Slavcheva, Irina Slavova, Nadia Teknedzhieva, Nikol Nesheva, Pavel Lefterov, Svetoslav Ninov, Stelana Sharkova and Yulia Lilova
Fátima Conesa is a Spanish artist born in Algeciras in 1977. She graduated with a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville and leads master classes and courses in graphic art and photogravure at CIEC Foundation and UPV Bilbao, and the Art Foundation, Picasso Museum in Malaga.
Printmaking, photography and photogravure have always been hand in hand in their discoveries, in technical and artistic processes. Photogravure (known also as mezzotint, heliogravure and Van Dyke gravure) is the best photogravure method for preparing a graphic matrix for printing works of art. The process is very attractive as it successfully allows for both painting with any kind of materials, photography, collages, etc, and digital image creation. The earliest form of photogravure process is the heliography of Nicéphore Niépce.