Lucio Mosner in the studio of Pablo Flaiszman - 2022
"Since his arrival, I've seen an incredible evolution in his work and the way he behaves in a collective workshop." - Pablo Flaiszman
Lucio Mosner, winner of the Savoir-faire en transmission 2022 prize, did his internship in the workshop of intaglio engraver Pablo Flaiszman, located in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.
After a year of preparatory classes for art schools, Lucio joined the Beaux-Arts de Paris until he obtained his national diploma in plastic arts in 2019. It was in 2017 that he did a first two-month internship with Pablo Flaiszman, and thus discovered the intaglio technique.
"Originally I only practiced drawing and painting. Engraving, which I thought was less direct and more tedious, had not attracted me until then. It was only when I did my internship at
Lucio Mosner
Pablo, in a real studio outside of school, that I fell in love with it.
After graduation in 2019, with the arrival of Covid-19 and the first confinements in early 2020, Lucio was no longer sure he could live from his art and was even considering training in other crafts with which he hoped to find more professional opportunities, such as cabinetmaking. It was while discussing this ambition with Pablo that the latter proposed to him to find an arrangement so that he could come back to work in the workshop every week. He then told him about the Savoir-faire en transmission prize, which he discovered in the newsletter of the Bureau du Design, de la Mode et des Métiers d'Art:
"I wasn't sure if I would be able to enter this award, because Pablo's studio is not a traditional craft business with employees, responding to orders. The practice of intaglio is a craft, but Pablo's studio is above all his personal artist's studio. We work there above all to evolve on an artistic level.
Lucio Mosner
The work of Pablo Flaiszman is recognized for his mastery of a specific technique of intaglio: aquatint. This technique consists of covering a copper plate with rosin resin powder before immersing it in an acid bath. This makes it possible to engrave the plate by surface and to obtain all the possible nuances of contrast: "The longer the plate is left in the acid, the more contrasted the color will be.
"We each work on our own plates: the idea of this workshop is for Lucio to deepen the learning of the intaglio technique, but especially to develop his artistic practice."
Pablo Flaizsman
Lucio Mosner has since been selected as a finalist for the Gravix 2022 Prize. He has also exhibited at the Taylor Foundation and the Anaphora Gallery.
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