The serigraph is a form of multiple art and as such, it shows that condition of original work, the same as a painting, a drawing or a sculpture.
The stamping of each copy is carried out by means of a complex handmade procedure that demands a specialized technical training.
The editions are reduced and each copy is numbered and signed of fist and letter for the author. It is frequent that each serigrafía is accompanied by a certification signed by a company publisher or the own artist where they consist the data of the work: title, author, realization date, etc.
As you advances in the process, the wombs are destroyed, so it becomes impossible to repeat the edition exactly similar to the original one.
The enormous possibilities that this technique has as for color qualities and texture have her transformations in a half used by many of the biggest artists in the century: Picasso, Warhol, Dalí, Matisse, Vasarely and he/she Looked that among others they gave place to the serigrafía among their graphic production.
In Argentina had great diffusion starting from the '70's. It is so works circulate with signatures of Antonio Berni's , Carlos Torrallardona, Leopoldo Presas, Raúl Soldi, Santiago Cogrono, Miguel Dávila, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Pérez Célis, Luis Felipe Noé, Luis Seoane and many other masters.
At the present time they are an excellent vehicle that facilitates the artists to arrive with their image to the public's wider sectors.
It is also presented like a legitimate option for those that feel the restlessness of participating of the artistic fact and this way they can consent to the satisfaction invaluable of possessing an original work to an accessible price.
THE TECHNICAL SERIGRAPH
As well as the xilografía is been worth of a wooden taco, the lithograph of a stone and the etching and the dry tip of the foil, the serigraph uses as womb a cloth tightened on a wing. Plugging this cloth for parts a figure is obtained that will move to the paper located making pass the ink through the same one by means of the pressure of a rubber with edge under. The copies are obtained repeating the process, one for one.
The artist generally works together with a specialized artisan that solves the technical aspects of the procedure. The best results are obtained when the artist is familiarized with the technique and she conceives her agreement work with the language characteristic of the serigrafía.
The different tonalities and textures are obtained by means of the overlapping and juxtaposition of full inks or tranparentes. Each color demands the preparation of a new womb and the repetition of the whole procedure.
They have been carried out serigraphs of many colors (seventy or more) according to what the artist seeks to look for. However the quantity of colors not necessarily implies a bigger quality. Often the best pieces have been achieved with few knowingly placed maintaining the freshness and graphic quality of the work.
Who has observed a serigraph at some time will notice the presence of the matter immediately and quality of the color quele grants a presence of which a simple reproduction lacks.
CONTEMPORARY ART
Under this denomination, a group of outstanding artists is organized to look for new answers to the necessities of companies, institutions and public in general as regards art and design.
With this concept they do series of serigraphic editions that combine the maximum artistic and handmade quality with the possibility of arriving to the interested one with very reduced prices. Also, the special characteristics of these editions allow to present them in form of portfolios, of institutional schedules or individually, offering this way the biggest easiness so that the interested one chooses the quantity, for the topics, and the presentation that more it is adapted to their necessities.
The group founder of Contemporary Art - Collection", is integrated by the following artists:
Rubén Erased - Ester Well done - Salvador Costanzos - Guillermo Mac Loughlin - Héctor Médici - Ricardo Roux - I Marinate Santa María - Carlos Tesarolo.
The serigraphs are made in the Shop of Guillermo Mac Loughlin.
In December of 1998, serigraphs were exhibited at the art Quique De Santi's
Gallery Contemporary Art - Collection."
The eight serigraphs were exhibited together with original works of the members of the
group.
At the beginning of 1999, the collection gets rich with Teresa Lascano's work and a new series also begins dedicated to the Tango. The first edition of this series is a work deGuillermo Alio. in a near future will come the edition of works of Roberto Broullón, Norberto Onofrio and Beautiful Graciela, also referred to the Tango.