Oficina do Cego: Agosto 2010

OFICINA DO CEGO

NIPC: 509149375

Oficina:

R. Sabino de Sousa 42 A, 1900-401 Lisboa

MAPA: Clique AQUI

Contactos:

GERAL: oficinadocego@gmail.com

ASSOCIADOS: ocassociados@gmail.com

FORMAÇÕES: ocformacao@gmail.com

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A OFICINA DO CEGO é uma associação congregadora de pessoas que partilham o interesse comum e sólido na utilização de técnicas de impressão que se podem descrever como aquelas que têm forte personalidade. Técnicas como a tipografia de caracteres móveis, a gravura ou a serigrafia. Técnicas estas que interagem e alteram decisivamente o resultado final do trabalho gráfico, moldando-o às suas virtudes e características singulares. Para amplificar esta vontade dos associados, a oficina tem vindo a adquirir material e maquinaria manual da mais elementar, para potenciar esta diferença entre a ideia e a impressão da ideia. Paralelamente, e com a vontade dos demais em participar em tantas fases quanto possíveis da impressão à sua transformação, a oficina do cego está igualmente a fazer papel e a encadernar.

Na OC, ensinamos tudo o que aprendemos.

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OFICINA DO CEGO (OC) is a non-profit cultural association based in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 2009.
Our area of work relates to a number of graphic arts such as printmaking, engraving, silk-screen printing, typography, movable type letterpress, bindery, paper-making, pop-up art, stencil art, among other areas (soon we'll move into photography as well), with a strong interest in illustration, artist's book and a general history of book-related arts.
One of our goals is to one day produce a book in which all the stages have been produced within OC.
Although many of these techniques may be considered by some people as commercially obsolete, they are filled with aesthetical potential, and can bring about the artist's personality to the fore. We also create opportunities for these techniques to interact and crossover, so that whatever the final outcome, it will bear the marks of all the unique characteristics and virtues of each.
We are always trying to acquire ever more and better equipment in order to make sure we can enhance the materialization of the member's idea. Moreover, we offer a comprehensive number of short-term workshops and long-term courses in all the areas mentioned above, including one quite complete self-publishing course, in which the students create from scratch their own project.
Member-artists interested in creating an individual project can also propose it to be done within OC, provided that they learn all the steps and produce it themselves. We are not a publisher, and our basic philosophy is to teach easy-to-replicate techniques, so that people can work on their own. Moreover, we're always looking for collective-oriented projects, so we can exchange as many experiences as possible.
In OC, we teach everything we learn and learn everything we teach.

Páginas

terça-feira, 31 de agosto de 2010

A Oficina do Cego na revista Artes e Leilões, set 2010