24 July 2020
The Source Workshop – Bringing Romanian Contemporary Art Straight in Your Household
The Source Workshop is the first independent art editions publishing house in Romania, making remarkable contemporary art editions accessible to everyone. They are working with some of today’s most exciting leading and emerging artists from Romania.
Started as an initiative supported by Jecza Gallery, Triade Foundation and Epretext and founded by Andrei Jecza & Didier Senn, today, The Source Workshop is proud to be endorsed by the majority of Romanian art galleries, private institutions, museums and like-minded friends.
Each work is carefully manufactured by the artists in close collaboration with the team of master printmakers from Cluj-Napoca and Timișoara – Cristian Opris, Lacy Matyas, Grigore Liteanu. Using traditional printmaking techniques such as mezzotint, aquatint, drypoint, pochoir, woodcut, linocut, stone lithography and screen printing, each work is a unique piece of art, signed and numbered by the artist’s hand and will include an original certificate of authenticity.
Although printmaking involves reproducing an image, a print is more than just a copy of an original. Fine art prints are something else entirely, resulting from a close collaboration between the artist and the print studio. Master printmakers — the people who work with the artist to produce an edition — are highly skilled technicians, and are often artists in their own rights. Prints are not made in large production runs and as a result they are true works of art, as important to the artist as drawings or other works on paper.
What is an edition?
An ‘original’ print is technically a unique work given it is generally produced as a limited number of impressions (collectively known as an edition), and each print is given an edition number. A print edition is the total number of impressions from a given print.
An ‘original’ print is technically a unique work given it is generally produced as a limited number of impressions (collectively known as an edition), and each print is given an edition number. A print edition is the total number of impressions from a given print.
The numbering of a print takes the form of a fraction. It shows the number of the print and the total number of prints in the edition. For example ’12/50′ means the print is number 12 within an edition of 50.
*Limited edition prints are usually numbered in pencil to reduce risk of fraud as computers can’t trace it.
Find out more about printmaking here.
The artist mission
The main endeavor and biggest ambition is to bring Romanian contemporary art to Romanian households, to make art accessible to a larger audience, one that values and feels inspired by fine, authentic works of art. The team is looking to create a meaningful connection between art lovers, who may become the collectors of the future and the artists they love.
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