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The printmaking course is held in the lovely little Andalucían mountain town of Capileira, in the Sierra Nevada mountains, 1,600 metres above sea level. The ancient Moorish town with its white houses, flat roofs and cairn-like chimneys is a true architectural gem. Buildings, aqueducts etc. are all included by preservation orders, and the Sierra Nevada mountains themselves are designated as an area of outstanding natural beauty. Just below Capileira, the cold, clear melt water from the perpetual snows of the Sierra Nevada (literally: the snowy mountain range) forms the rushing streams of the Río Poqueira, tempting the passer-by to enjoy a refreshing dip in the hot hours of the afternoon.
In these surroundings, the printmaker Henrik Boegh and the painter Aase Hoejer have created studios in a 500-year-old Moorish house with adjoining orchard in the deepest respect of the original architecture. For the past 20 years, the studios and workshops have provided the setting for summer courses in painting, photography – and now, also printmaking.
The softly sculpted mountains are intersected by deep, dramatic gorges and melt water streams, providing a breathtaking abundance of artistic subjects, the like of which is found in few other places in Europe. We work every day from 9 am to 5 pm in the printmaking studio.All over the house and garden you have free access to our wireless network.
You will be staying in the small hotel in Capileira with access to the swimming-pool.
PROGRAM
Instructor: Henrik Boegh
Participants: Maximum 8
Daily 9am -17pm
Language spoken: English, Spanish, German, Danish according to the wishes of the participants
THE CONTENTS OF THE WORKSHOP
This seven working-days course teaches all techniques with the non-toxic acrylic etching system as well as all techniques with photopolymer film., combinations with monotype, carborumdum etc.
The non-toxic acrylic etching system includes:
Liquid Hard Ground, Roll-on Hard Ground, Roll-on Soft Ground, Spray-on Aquatint, Lift Ground and Direct Washings
The photopolymer techniques include:
Washing techniques, different uses of photocopies for etchings, digitally generated stencils, photopolymer gravure with one or two layers of photopolymer film, and genuine photogravure (etched with photopolymer film used as resist).
Finally you learn to generate "the perfect positive" digitally in Photoshop for etched- and non-etched copper plates.
Furthermore, we will work with other and more advanced techniques such as combinations of photopolymer gravure and acrylic etching grounds (aquatint, hard ground, etc.), waterbased mono types etc.
During the workshop the participants will become completely familiarised with the different techniques and hence be able to make in-depth experiments with personal favourites.
MATERIALS
Materials are included. We recommend that you bring your personal working tools and eventually digital camera, CD's, Labtop ect.
Capileira is situated in Las Alpujarras (Sierra Nevada) between Granada and the Costa del Sol. It is a one-hour drive by car from Granada, and 2½ hours from Malaga.
If you arrive in Malaga by plane, there is a bus to Granada every hour on the hour. The bus trip takes two hours.
To/from Granada-Capileira, there are three busses a day:
from Granada 10.00 am, 12.00 am and 17.00 pm -
from Capileira: 06.35 am, 16.45 pm and 18.15 pm.
(Sharing a taxi with a couple of others is a possibility.)
WHAT IS THE COURSE FEE?
The fee is :
EURO 800,- including course instruction, breakfast, lunch, hotel and materials.
Double rooms are standard.
For single rooms, EURO 115,- extra.
ACCOMMODATION
Course participants are accommodated in the “viviendas” (apartments) of the Poqueira Hotel (from the Saturday before the course begins and until the Sunday after it ends).
Each vivienda consists of three double rooms, a large common living-room, kitchen, bath, washing machine, two toilets and a terrace overlooking the Sierra Nevada or the Poqueira valley.
For single rooms, EURO 115,- extra.
ENROLMENT
Fill in and send enclosed form (click)
You will then be informed whether there are vacancies, and if there are, you will be asked to pay a deposit of EURO 200,-
The remainder of the fee is to be paid no later than at the start of the workshop.
FURTHER INFORMATION
GRAFISK EKSPERIMENTARIUM
Trepkasgade 8 kld.tv.,
DK-2100 Copenhagen (Denmark)
Phone: 23 32 07 51
mail@artbag.dk
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