Our friend and sculpturer Maestro Mimmo die Cesare will hold a "Stage di
Cultura". The class will take place Monday through Friday in the afternoon
(3:20 – 6:30 pm) at Castello Pasquini. Participants decide for themselves what
they want to sculpture. In the first class, the work is planned by a sketch that
is then used to realize the object.
We use soft materials like for example as well as alabaster in
a second stage. The material will be provided, and the finished artwork can be
kept by the participants. Also, a visit to Mimmo di Cesare’s studio is planned
to learn about some of his work and Techniques. On the last night, the whole group
enjoys a dinner at a good seafood restaurant.
Dates:
Every first Monday in April, May, June, and September.
Price per week: Euro 290,-
Group size: From 6 to 10 Persons
Accommodation can be booked at one of our offices.
Alabaster Carving at Castiglioncello
Castiglioncello and Alabaster: a new course for carving in alabaster,
the stone that enables you to experience further dimensions in art.
Christian I. Peintner, the Austrian artist with his roots in Italy, is
drawn several times a year to Castiglioncello in pursuit of his creative
work. The seminars which he gives spread beyond geographical borders to
break new bounds in his artistic medium. These multi-national seminars
range over the week from drawing and painting in water-colour and oils
to encompass carving in soap-stone, as ‘extending the creative endeavour
to other media develops the creative powers’ as the artist himself says;
so in this way the creative abilities are developed.
Participants on the course can further their
knowledge of alabaster carving in the region of Volterra, which is
historically associated with alabaster and a world centre for the
material. As alabaster has the happy facility, like soap-stone, of being
easy to carve, the resulting work of art will always give a special
degree of pleasure to the artist.
The artist reveals that ‘Alabaster and soap-stone both yield their form
by the simple use of chisel, rasp and glass-paper. The result cannot
fail to please, and under tuition, the artist’s creative ideas can soon
be brought to fruition. Alabaster, which is slightly translucent in
character, was formerly used in church window decoration, as well as for
purely decorative objects and even to enhance humble, everyday items of
all kinds. There is a special technique that can make it look like marble.’
spring session
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October 2010
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1 week’s course: From €250; excluding painting materials, stone and tools.
