The Art of Calcocgraphy offers 15 among the most common techniques of chalcographic print making.
The knowledge of the methods and techniques enables us to appreciate works of the famous artists of the past and of the present and, at the same time, it becomes an important resource in making new experiments and using new methods in carrying out chalcographic works.

Alberto Nacci entrusts the “realistic” sounds and the music with the task to lead the viewer in a sort of journey through time: the tools and the techniques chosen for the movie are, in fact, the same used by the artists in the 17th and the 18th century. New methods and new technological tools, like for example a mechanical burr are added to traditional tools like burin, berceau and dry-point; in this way the artists are given new expressive possibilities opened towards new experimentation in the art of chalcographic print making.
The movie is addressed both to those who are approaching the world of art and to those willing to enlarge their  creative work in the field of chalcography which is particularly suitable for experimentation.

It was directed from October to December 2006 in Benedetti’s studio in Bergamo and in the former church Chiesa di S.Novello in Casalbeltrame, in the province of Novara.
Music recording and audio/video editing were carried out at AJP Studio.

DETAILS
DIRECT TECHNIQUES
Burin and punch	[4:00]
Mechanical burr	[5:08]
Carborundum	[6:42]
Mezzotint	[5:08]
Drypoint	[4:01]
INDIRECT TECHNIQUES
Ink and Judaic bitumen	[6:50]
Sugar aquatint	[9:34]
Natural oxidation	[6:27]
Painting method	[5:59]
Wax crayon	[3:52]
Salt-lift aquatint	[4:09]
Direct acid	[5:10]
Etching	[5:23]
Soft ground etching	[5:41]
The calcographic print	[4:55]
INTERVIEWS
Carlo Bertelli	[4:33]
Alberto Veca	[6:28]
Mario Benedetti	[2:45]
Giorgio Upiglio	[1:53]