CIUHA (1924-2015) by Fiorenzo FALLANI (1934-2014) Screenprints

The silk-screen serigraphies of CIUHA BY FALLANI have beeen created by Fiorenzo FALLANI, (Firenzi 1934-2014 Venezia) in his studio of Venezia, Italy, starting from the original paintings of Slovenian artist Joze CIUHA (1924-2015). CIUHA paintings are painted behind panel of glass or of plexiglas and contrarily to oil on canvas they can't be corrected once painted.
The silk-screens have been published in "FIORENZO FALLANI SERIGRAPHY", with photos and fact sheets printed in Italy May 1997 by Bertoncello Artigrafiche snc, Cittadella Padova for SanZanobi, with the works of Ciuha and de Mimmo Rotella, Hans Richter, Velickovic, François Morellet.
Born in Florence in 1934, where he was taught the art of engraving by an old master, Fiorenzo FALLANI was called to Venice in 1959 as the technical director of a graphic art establishment. Venice became his home, Venice was from the 3rd to the 6th century, considered to be the European capital for graphic art and printing, and Fiorenzo Fallani found inspiration from the old Masters.
In 1968 he opened his silk-screen printing studio for the Venetian art world and when
Professor Umbro Apollonio, director of the XXXV Venice International Art Biennale gave him the direction of the Experimental Laboratory of the Italian Pavilion, he worked with many national and international artists such as Arnaldo Pomodoro, Mimmo Rotella, Hans Richter, Max Bill, Joe Tilson, Alice Aycock, Janez Bernik,Hsiao Chin, Harold Stivenson, Leonardo Cremonini and Joze Ciuha. From 1978 until 1992 he taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (Venice Academy of Fine Arts). Fallani has collaborated with 193 artists and created 1016 artistic silk-screens prints.
20 Shows with Seminars from 1997 to 2011 :
Messina, National Museum, Dakar Senegal, Cultural Center Leopold Sengor, Messina, Regional Museum, Sumy Ukraine, University Graphic Arts Gallery, Warsaw Poland, Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Kracow Poland, University Design Department, Sumy Ukrain, Art Museum, Ljubljana Slovenia, Cankarjev Dom Cultural Center, Athens Greece, Italian Institute of Culture, Venezia, Galleria del Cavallino, Accra Ghana, National Museum, Oslo Norway, Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos Nigeria, Italiano Cultural Institute, Work Shop University, Trieste, Studio Tommaseo Marseilles France, Italiano Cultural Institute Brunico, Civic Design Museum, Bled Slovenia, Joze Ciuha Foundation Bled Museum Slovenia, Oderzo Treviso, Cà Lozzio Cultural Association event “Omaggio a Virgilio Guidi” (Tribute to Virgilio Guidi), Guatemala City Guatemala, Italiano Cultural Institute, Venezia, Arkè Gallery “The screen-printing of Fiorenzo Fallani, Sassari, 1970-2010 From Figurative to Figuration 1970-2010.
“Fiorenzo Fallani can take merit for having transformed screen-printing from an instrument of pure reproduction to a refined and innovative technique with the artist able to create works with chromatic, plastic and even tactile effects” Toni Toniato
“The artist has found an extraordinary incentive provided by the discovery of a procedure, screen-printing, that he has experimented with and substantially mutated with the contribution of an admirable technique, that is, of Fiorenzo Fallani, a prophetic creator as he was for the graphic designer Bauhaus Karl Zambitzer, and one that is outside of every reproductive and mechanical routine....” Carlo Ragghianti