The Foundation The Bison Florence, inaugurates the new year Thursday, January 21, 2010 with an exhibition dedicated to the work of Livio graphics Ceschin one of the most skilled engravers Italian contemporaries. About thirty leaves and drypoint etching done showing the work of the artist from the nineties to date, and documenting lonely landscapes and poetic, often devoid of human presence.

Ceschin writes in the introduction to the catalog: “In all my recordings seem to correspond to a reality degrading, but not repulsive. What we see and we sense that exudes in which each element is sublimated by the sign, where the memory of the destruction and degradation is equally significant and comforting than that of pine and birch woods. These ruins, these artifacts play a vital liaison role between man and environment, between past and present, between memory and memory of human nature. I believe, moreover, that little or nothing can be born without a deep and lasting blend with tradition, since it binds us to our land, our history, our art. Renounce the tradition, deny it, is tantamount to reverse ourselves, our personality, our values. ”

Born in Pieve di Soligo (Treviso) in 1962, Livio Ceschin has studied training at the Art Institute and the Academy of Venice Raphael of Urbino.
Since 1993 he has been devoted several exhibitions in Italy and abroad, in galleries and Italian Cultural Institute, participating in two-year and Three year graphics including those of Ljubljana and Krakow. His works are present in the collection Achille Bertarelli, Milan, in the Cabinet of the National Press Bagnacavallo and the Civic Museum of Cremona, in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London, the collection of prints of the National Library of France in Paris and the collection of graphic Caixanova of Spain. Since 2002 is part of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in London.

On the occasion of the inauguration will be presented to the public by Marco Gobbato the catalog of all the production art of engraving Livio Ceschin. The book, edited by Alessandro Piras, is included in the catalog that Skira, publisher of the most important international and pays particular attention to projects related to enhancing the art of graphics, it will cure the promotion and the resulting book distribution.
The text supporting the work is entrusted to Professor Achim Gnann, curator of Italian Art at the Albertina in Vienna, which traces the long activity of the engraver’s work since the early 90s, offered in public exhibitions and private to the most recent, always and consistently linked to the direct relationship with the nature of its landscape.
The catalog is accompanied by texts translated into English and, in addition to a speech by Professor Vittorio Sgarbi and a section on teaching intaglio art (Main techniques of engraving and Glossary for the engraver), contains numerous other critiques over the years accompanied the exhibition activities of the artist. Among these, we mention the contributions of Giorgio Soavi, Tino Gipponi, Roberto Sienese, Mario De Micheli, Federico Zeri, Ernst Gombrich, Henri Cartier Bresson, Bino Rebello, Mario Rigoni Stern, Giorgio Trentin, Franco Loi, Luciano Cecchinel and Andrea Zanzotto. The edition is sponsored by Regione Veneto and Albertina Museum in Vienna.

Technical-publishing
Format art large volume (24 × 28), the catalog consists of over 200 pages and contains 108 works reproduced in three colors.
The volume, printed on glossy, opaque 170 grams, is published in two editions: Softcover paperback with flaps and hardcover with dashboard color printing. Sewing cotton thread.
Was also carried out an edition of 150 copies-edition luxury into a folder specially shaped (37 × 49) and containing for the first 70 copies of 2009 drypoint etching-signed and dated by the artist.

Opening Thursday 21 January – 18.00

The exhibition will remain open until February 19
with the following hours: Monday to Friday 9 / 13 – 15/19

For information:
The Buffalo Foundation, via S. Niccolò 24r – Florence
tel. +39-055-2342585 Fax. +39-055-2346768
gallery@ilbisonte.it