March 14 – April 14 2019
PRISM PERSPECTIVES brought together 5 Prism member artists from Italy and Poland
Wharepuke was delighted to welcome the 5 artists from Poland and Italy in our first collaboration with Prism Print International.
Founded in the UK in 2012 by John Read and Nigel Oxley Prism Print International acts as a forum for cross-cultural exchange through fine art printmaking and international exchange exhibitions.
The artists are
- Vladimiro Elvieri (Italy)
- Tomasz M. Kukawski (Poland)
- Joanna Piech (Poland)
- Arianna Tagliabue (Italy)
- Maria Chiara Toni (Italy)
Vladimiro Elvieri
Engraver, designer, printer, curator – graduated from the State Institute of Art in Nove, Italy. He is a prolific experimenter with print methodologies, deploying novel techniques to express his complex concerns about humanity and our bad attitude towards Mother Earth. Vladimiro Maria Chiara Toni’s web site can be seen here
Tomasz M. Kukawski
Hand-punched linocut (punca), 89 x 109 cm
Tomasz M. Kukawskilives and works in Bialystok, Poland.He studied at the Department of Architecture, Bialystok Technical University, and the Faculty of Graphics, the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw in printmaking. Universally engaged in design, he continues his powerful and enigmatic printmaking.
Joanna Piech
Joanna Piechstudied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and in the Faculty of Graphic Art in Katowice, Poland. Piech’s large-scale linocut prints embody her sensations in a dialogue with life. Serious or humorous, reflecting the surrounding world, making them is a demanding enterprise
Maria Chiara Toni
Drypoint, roulette, perforation on Forex – 70 x 50 cm
Maria Chiara Tonigraduated from the State Institute of Art, Mantova, Italy. Simultaneously evolving experimental approaches to printmaking and exploring the complexities of social conditioning and its corruption of innocence, she represents the quandaries as warnings.
Arianna Tagliabue
Drypoint on PVC – 70 x 50 cm
Arianna Tagliabue, from Lecco in Italy, began her studies at the European Institute of Design in Milan and Rome. She met Vladimiro Elvieri, learned of his experiments with alternative tools and plate materials such as Forex, a pvc signage board, and began her own path through innovative printmaking. In subject her response is reflective and autobiographical, and reacquaints her with a lost past, with childhood trauma and the general discomforts of living.
Hand-punched linocut – (punca) – 89 x 109 cm
