Near the Cultural Center of “Santa Maria della Pietà” of Cremona, Italy, from September 24th to October 29th 2017, will be held the 9th International Engraving Exhibition – Cremona 2017. The Biennial, exclusively to invitation, curated by Vladimiro Elvieri, assisted by an International Scientific Committee, is organized by the INCISIONE SENZA CONFINI Association with the collaboration, the patronage, and the financial support of the Municipality of Cremona, with the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the patronage and collaboration of the Prism Print International London, AIE (Italian Ex libris Association), Liceo Musicale “R. Malipiero” of Varese, Michelle Champetier Gallery, Cannes, and the contribution of private sponsor.

Exhibitions:
1 -MASTERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Stanley William Hayter, Zoran Music, Antoni Clavé, Antoni Tàpies
A historical section that presents forty works by some of the greatest exponents of the art history of the ‘900, coming from important private collections of Cannes (Michelle Champetier Gallery) and Paris (Denise Frélaut, director of the famous Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut in Montmartre).

2 -THE SECRET GESTURE
Reserved to the most important Italian and foreign contemporary artists who are distinguished for the quality of their art graphics research. Forty prints of medium and large format, in which the engraved sign becomes a communicative gesture.

Artists (22): Alberto Balletti (Italy) – Derek M. Besant (Canada) – Alicia Candiani (Argentina) – Shu-Lin Chen (Taiwan) – Agnieszka Cieslinska-Kowecka (Poland) – Manfred Egger (Austria) – Egide (France) – Philipp Hennevogl (Germany) – Kamil Kocurek (Poland) – Silvana Martignoni (Italy) – Barbara Martini (Italy) – Rob Mazurek (USA) – Jim Monson (USA) – Herman Noordermeer (Netherlands) – Endi Poskovic (USA) – Anna Romanello (Italy) – Hector Saunier (France/Argentina) – Mario Scarpati (Italy) – Yun Jung Seo (S. Korea) – Alan Sundberg (USA/Germany) + Armando Martini (Italy) – Marco Trentin (Italy) – Minjie Zhang (Cina).

3 -PRISM 8 “Connections”
Seventy works created with various graphic techniques by 36 artists members of the Prism Print International of London, coming from seven countries (United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, Poland, Netherlands, China, S. Korea,). Itinerary show in Europe and Asia.

Prism artists (36): Pauline Aitken – Susan Aldworth - Marcin Bialas – Ian Brown – Trevor Banthorpe – Claudia De Grandi – Dolores De Sade – Vladimiro Elvieri – Yolanda Eveleens – Jin Hirosawa – Toshihiko Ikeda – Rebecca Jewell – Stanley Jones – Yuichi Kashima – Masahiro Kawara – Shizuko Kiyohara – Hideki Kondo – Tomasz M. Kukawski –Masataka Kuroyanagi – Sophie Layton – Nao Masuda – Norman McBeath – Tsutomu Morita – Hisaharu Motoda – Tetsuya Noda – Nigel Oxley – Ritsuko Ozeki – Jae Young Park – Sumi Perera – Joanna Piech – Jurjen Ravenhorst – John Read – Arianna Tagliabue – Ryoko Tanaka – Maria Chiara Toni – Jian Zhou.

4 –EX-LIBRIS CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
A significant collection of ex-libris and small graphic of Italian and foreign authors, dedicated to the figure and work of the great composer and musician from Cremona, in the 450th anniversary of the birth (1567). Exhibition in collaboration with AIE-Associazione Italiana Ex-Libris and Liceo Musicale “R. Malipiero” of Varese.