Gianluca Arienti Grandi Formati, 2018/2019

Since 2018 Gianluca Arienti has been collaborating with A14, cyclically spending periods of residency in the studio, during which he produces multiples and large formats.

Experiments in which, starting from one or a few initial images, the artist observes the printed results, letting the work take shape step by step. Gesture, layering, repetition and movement.

A movement that makes the final image fluid and kinetic, bringing the gesture back to a single whole made of frames and sequences, just as in cinematographic film.

A research that extends to other media and whose ultimate aim is interaction with the space with which it enters into relation. 

A series recalling the frames of a film reel, images that come to life through movement, creating cinematic landscapes and atmospheres; distant lands, desert or urban, breaking apart and recomposing, monochrome, aerial perspectives, at times kaleidoscopic repetitions.

Deserto rosso - Dead ringers - Nera è la notte - À bout de souffle - Kalendoscope A & B - Round Midnight side A & B - Camera Roll - Nouvelle Vague.

Technique: intaglio printing. Etching, aquatint and drypoint
Format: various sizes
Paper: Arches 270g
Edition: unique pieces, modular compositions
Printer: Gianluca Arienti

Special features: the same plate was printed several times on the same sheet, forming a composition that is in turn repeated in several modules, creating a patterned composition.

These are single shots printed digitally as Giclée: alien presences, signs of other worlds, black and white patterns, constant and varying speeds, multiple directions, meteor showers, Fontana's cuts. The sun's rays, filtered, become moonlike glows, artificial lights, apparitions, calls, luminescences, milky glimmers, presences and absences in constant evolution.

A series of images which, combined with analogue shots, videos and original prints, is conceived to enter the space as an installation.

Technique: Fine Art/Giclée
Format: 32 x 45 cm
Paper: Epson Velvet Fine Art 260g
Edition: 24 unique pieces
Printer: by A14

Photography and lithographic process from a polymer plate.
A shot and the overlay of other shots. Everything starts from a double-exposure image developed in the darkroom, from four-colour separation to recomposition in hand-press printing. A process whose result gives the image a dreamlike, painterly atmosphere.

Technique: lithographic process from a polymer plate
Format: 50 x 40 cm
Paper: Alcantara 270g
Edition: 2 compositions formed from a series of 20 unique pieces
Printer: Gianluca Arienti
Special features: a printing process with four passes on the hand press.