School of Lithography

ITALIAN version

Lithos (“stone” in Greek) can be considered as content and container of other arts, other expressive languages: writing, drawing, printing to make durable impressions, tied indissolubly to the extreme concrete character of the means.
Since 1798 with the first experiments performed by Senefelder, this art and craft has attracted the interest of artists themselves while being widely diffused at the same time as a technique for the support of specific realizations of art. A century later with Toulouse-Lautrec, lithography invaded the realm of art graphics and the field of advertising communications at its outset: publicity posters to celebrate the Parisian nightclub dancers and the use of multiple matrices gave expressiveness and colour to this technique, often tingeing it with the aura of painting.
It is in these inter-weavings and cross-fertilizations that today lie the value of this art, in its continuing capacity to establish relations with the various scenarios of contemporary artistic production.

The independent course of lithography is geared to the theoretical study and in-depth practice of lithographic techniques and includes the following workshop activities:
• Graphical techniques
• Lithography on stone
• Lithography on zinc
• Printing in black and white
• Printing in colour

The print shop can run off print jobs on commission.

The lessons are 3 hours each and are held once a week. The course can have a trimester, semester or annual duration and the classes are composed of a maximum of eight students. For those students who complete a yearly cycle, an end-of-the-year exhibition will be held with the awarding of certificates and with a catalogue featuring photographs of the students and their works.

Entrance requirements and Enrollment:
No particular qualifications needed; direct enrollment in Secretariat.

Minimum Course lenght:
Three months / 12 lessons (36 hrs.)

Please use our contact page to ask about price duration and beginning of the course