T H E C L A S S I C S

La Bottega Gallery has the largest collection of etchings in the US by some of the most known Italian contemporary artists. It’s the core of our business, and my biggest passion to present. Below you will find my suggestions on how to use multiple art styles and sizes to create a 'gallery wall' in different parts of your home. The art in the mock ups is all part of my collection at the gallery. The choices you see are to help show you the possibilities (all are interchangeable to your specifications and design style), you can have a lot of fun with sizing, the choice of artists, frames, styles and shapes. If we manage to single out works from this large group we can start narrowing in on what could be great additions to your collection.

M O D E R N

A few years ago, La Bottega started a new initiative. After 30+ years of presenting classic, very traditional engravings, at the request of some of our clients and collectors, we began to gradually introduce a slightly more relaxed approach to the very traditional art form. Color. We now present three artists who, each in their own way, introduce novel techniques into the traditional process.

ARTIST: PATRIARCA & VARIOUS

In addition to his regular approach to traditional graphics (mostly mezzotint) Italian artist Riccardo Giovanni Patriarca works in a very complicated process (aquatint) by adding the ink using 3-5 zinc plates with which he applies various colors on the same sheet of paper.

ARTIST: LABITZKE

American artist Maestro Curt Labitzke will also go through the press several times, applying different layers of paint. Between the two prints, Labitzke will often sand the paper, so that it has a different background for each new layer. In this way, really different copies will come out of the same board, which they will still present as a single edition (10-20 copies in total for each title).

ARTIST: CHAHAB

French-Iranian Master takes it to another level by physically producing his own paper that is much heavier and fuller which intern receives a very heavy amount of paint that he then transfers in several different pressings.