‘I use an extremely rare printing technique called grain gravure. It’s a nineteenth-century process that transfers a photographic image onto a copper plate using photosensitive gelatine. Rotogravure played a key role in the discovery of photography, to which its history remains closely linked.’
‘I use an extremely rare printing technique called grain gravure. It’s a nineteenth-century process that transfers a photographic image onto a copper plate using photosensitive gelatine. Rotogravure played a key role in the discovery of photography, to which its history remains closely linked.’
Born in Italy, the artist photographer Costanza Gastaldi is a graduate of the Ecole des Gobelins and the Sorbonne University, Paris. Her photographic expeditions have brought her to the Chinese mountains, above the Arctic Circle and into the White Desert.
Her work for the Medusa project is a sensitive and anthropomorphic representation of the aquatic world. With its hypnotic movements, the jellyfish, that absolute other in her eyes, with its otherworldly beauty and its many symbolic facets (psychoanalytical, mythological, medical, ecological, etc.) imposed itself on the artist as a subject and a medium that offered something new; the discovery of the possibilities that ‘immersive art’ offers.
She creates her images using a process called Grain Photogravure. This is a 19th century process used to transfer photographic images onto a copper plate using photosensitive gelatin. It played a central role in the early days of photography and is considered the most beautiful way to print photographic images.
Still an emerging artist, her work has already been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in Europe and Asia and has been presented at international fairs such as PhotoFairs Shanghai; Fine Art Asia, Ink Asia; Haute Photographie Rotterdam and Art Paris.
Costanza Gastaldi lives and works in Paris.
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