Continuing with ‘From the Archive’. My 2003 work Studio d’una Citta (etching, cyanotype, woodcut, and lithograph).
Antonietta Covino-Beehre’s set of eight prints, entitled Studio d’una citta were enclosed in a box with an etched copper lid. The scenes of Rome and Florence in Italy and their surrounding areas were made using traditional printmaking techniques of etching, cyanotype, wood engraving and lithography. Covino-Beehre has explored her paternal Italian heritage and its associated domestic traditions in her winning work. The boxed set makes an interesting addition to the City of Fremantle Art Collection as it represents several printmaking practices in the one work, and through its subject of Italian heritage which is a rich cultural element of the Fremantle community.
The 28th Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award 2003: "Among the most exciting inclusions in every print award are the artists' books, one of which took out this year's first prize. A wonderful work titled Studio D'una Cittá (Study of a City) by Antonietta Covino-Beehre. Created to fit in a casket like box, the eight-folded gabled prints also have centrally opening folds or doors. The set of prints removed from the box become a small installation of buildings, each exploring monuments, texts, textures, colours that attest to the grandeur that once was Rome and that fascinates and romances even today. The layering of images and narratives recall the strata of Roman history which seem neverending". (Artlink Vol. 23 No.4 - Paola Anselmi)
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