As all ancient techniques, I was allways fascinated by etchings and engravings.

My father is a great engraver and I've maintained the love. I've started in 2000 in the Bologna Academy of Arts and I've continued in next years.

Etching is an old technique and even if "to engrave" something has prehistoric origins, also in medieval age artists engraved metals in goldsmith's art. Anyway we have proofs of earlier etching as metallic plates engraved and destined to be printed since Century IV.

Plates (usually are zinc or copper) are covered by a water-repellent varnish layer blackened by candle smoke. After that is possible to remove vernissage with a metallic spike creating brillant signs, so drawings will be made in negative. It'll be acid action to create cleavages in the plate, to permit the color to penetrate in future print phase. The more a sign remains in the acid, the more it'll be deep. That's important to create different black degrees, hatchings and chiaroscuro.

Etchings is truely a hard work. Plate is engraved for weeks blindly in negative and untill print phase, without knowing true final result.

That's why all etchers usually make a lot of "states" of each etching. Each one represents another detail addiction through acid action directly on the plate.

All etchings must have signature and progression numbers.