Lotta 1.3 (2025) Monoprint by Isabellangela Germinario

Engraving the Present: Sustainability, Material, and Uniqueness

This work is born from an ancient gesture—that of printmaking—reimagined through a contemporary and sustainable lens. Instead of traditional metal plates, the artist employs Tetrapak, a discarded everyday material transformed into an expressive tool.

This technique, known as Tetrapak printmaking, not only reduces environmental impact but also offers remarkable versatility: the surface, both soft and resilient, allows for precise marks, intense lines, and unexpected textures—revealing a new sensitivity to both material and the world.

Each monoprint is a unique piece, created with intaglio inks and printed by hand using a press. No reproductions, no series: each print is an unrepeatable result of the encounter between gesture, matrix, and pressure.

An art that truly leaves a mark—on paper, on awareness, on time.
This work emerges from the encounter—at times conflicting, at times seductive—between the human body and the vegetal world. The figure, immersed in a dense weave of leaves, no longer seeks a harmonious fusion with nature: it twists, hides, resists. It’s a struggle filled with ambiguity, charged with tension, often slipping into eroticism and the desire for connection.

Materials used:

Paper "unica" Fabriano, calcography colors

Details:

• Monoprint on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 29 x 21 x 0.1cm (unframed)
• Signed on the back
• Style: Illustrative
• Subject: Flowers and plants