Back Copyright Series opens his first call of edition of serigraphy directed to young artists 2009 - 2010. The target of the call is destined to promote the work of five young artists, as well as the edition and production of one of his works in the skill serigráfica.

The term to send the proposals opens on September 1, 2009 and closes on October 26, 2009.



THE ARTISTIC ENGRAVING

The future of the engraving, like artistic skill, is before an important challenge. And the fact is that if up to the irruption of the new technologies, of the digital thing or of the computer, the secondhand skills had been supported throughout the years, in little more than 20 years the engraving seems exposed to complement itself with new skills, so that it does not stay like an artistic discipline of nostalgic or anchored in the past

SKILLS OF THE GRAPHIC ART

l concept includes a set of skills and processes which common characteristic is the aptitude to reproduce, that is to say, to stamp or to print images from a “matriz ” so many times let's determine. We call counterfoil to the support on which the drawing or the image is realized. This support can be of diverse types of material, between others, wood, stone, metal or linoleum, depending on the skill or process that we use. Every skill needs a proper process of printing or impression.


MUSEUM OF THE SPANISH ENGRAVING

Constituted in 1992, the Foundation Museum of the Contemporary Spanish Engraving, of Marbella (Malaga - Spain), has his head office in the building of the ancient Hospital Bazán. Created according to the generous donation of his particular collection of contemporary Spanish graphic work, of that he was a teacher of the Autonomous University of Madrid, a Dr. D. José Luis Morales and Marín - who practised like General manager of the Foundation up to his unexpected death in 1998 - the Museum is provided at present with more than three thousand pictures.


THE MONOTYPE

Juan José Molina Villaescusa exhibits in a clear way and needs the process, nomenclature, alternatives and skills of the engraving calcográfico.
Also it would be convenient to consider other of the factors that, to his judgment, does that the engraving is one of the most important expressive plastic means at present: his closeness to the people. One of the characteristics diferenciadoras of the serial work opposite to the only work is, precisely, his biggest accessibility.


PRAISE OF THE TEST

The tests of the state (sealed in the picture with the initials P.E., or P/E), it is those printings that the recording artist realizes to know the current state of his work in the counterfoil or iron. The author analyzes the obtained test, this allows him to take decisions directed to the progress of the final score of his work. It erases not wished lines, adds or intensifies others, that is to say, it realizes the correction of the iron.