Venice, "Guttenberg" makes prints of old technologies

Italian Gianni Basso has revived the ancient technology of printing. Coming out of the press under his unique prints, cards and other printed products are selling like hot cakes

Source: Gianni Basso Italian printmaker (Gianni Basso) in a Venetian shop selling unusual goods. Everything in his shop, produced by old technologies Gutenberg era. Electrical printers printer does not favor, he considers them to be soulless. For Basso making prints by hand - it's poetry.

Printing machines Basso send us back to the XVI century, Aldus Manutius the publisher for its publication of Greek and Latin texts has made Venice one of the main centers of printing of the Renaissance . Basso has studied the craft printer has 15 years of age on the Venetian island of San Lazzaro. Thirty years ago, he repaired several old machines and took them to his studio, where they are today. And the buyers are still hanging up there, despite the crisis, the general mechanization of production processes and reduce budgets. His clients are eager to get something handmade. Advertising is not required to shop - quality of the product speaks for itself. Basso has recently reproduced 35 pages of the first edition of the tale of Pinocchio in 1880. "Printing with me, it seems, in the blood," - says Gianni Basso.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : artinvestment.ru

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