I presented two engravings to the engraving contest of the Vivanco wineries; I tell their story:
I saw in a catalog of an exhibition the photo of a venetian blind that I really liked.
A venetian blind of sandstone. Northern India, late sixteenth century/early seventeenth century.
The repetition of 12 sided polygons which, when neatly combined, form some stars seemed to me a very interesting synthesis; something as if the simple forms the infinite...
All this connects with what I had been thinking of the "powers of wine" to transport us to a dimension beyond reason, so I decided to use it.
I thought about using a picture of a sleeping figure with a glass of wine, but my protagonist was not asleep...; then, another one inspired to the Lorenzo de Medici of Michelangelo...;
but in the end I decided to take as a model a character of "The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew" of Caravaggio,
this is the character who is behind the young man with his back turned in the foreground
I made several sketches and I tried to stamp the two copper plates in two or three shades
For the contest they selected only the black and white version (I presented the light-colored version because I liked the effect of the lines on the dark area) but I heard many voices that the figure hadn't been understood (I will start to work more by using live models).
You can see the engraving and the other participants in this link to the exhibition catalog.
http://www.esdir.eu/Upload/Externos/catalogo-IX-Vivanco/
And why not to use the venetian blind for the september cover?
