The course is 40 hours, Monday to Friday; the cost is 660€ which covers taxes, insurance, all instruction and materials, use of tools, certificate attesting to successful completion of the course, and the mosaic you create during the course.

Dates:
19-23 July
26-30 July

Websites:
kokomosaico
twindolphinmosaics
flickr


For more information and details, contact us or contact Stephanie at twindolphinmosaics@yahoo.com

work in progress

from child’s design

broken tile mosaic

Do you love mosaics and want to experience some of the mosaic riches here in Italy? Ravenna has astounding Byzantine mosaics, and in the surrounding areas we can find the whole range, from 1st century Roman mosaics, to medieval mosaics, right up to provocative contemporary mosaics.

Kokomosaico organizes custom half-day, full-day and multi-day mosaic trips. No set departures, we go when you want, with as many or as few as you are.

The destinations to choose from include:

Near Ravenna we can see: a huge Roman-era floor mosaic replete with hunting scenes, Dionysus and pals; a Roman villa dating to the 1st century AD with many of its black/white geometric floors intact; and the remains of an 11th century Benedictine monastery whose church floor writhes with mosaic animals and geometric patterns.

Venice is where we admire the mosaics of St Mark’s, the 11th century mosaics on the island of Torcello (with a very sobering depiction of Judgment Day), and the splendour of the Orsoni glass and gold factory.

Spilimbergo is home to a respected mosaic school and a lively community of artists whose mosaic philosophy differs sharply from that of Ravenna’s.

Aquileia, northern Italy’s most important archeological site. We’ll visit a Basilica literally carpeted with early Christian mosaics and a museum whose collection has been called ‘a graduate course in mosaics’.

If we choose to go south, there are numerous hidden mosaic treasures—this is the heartland of the Roman Empire after all. For a change of pace, we might visit Niki St Phalle’s Tarot Garden, a sculpture garden boasting huge sculptures based on the tarot cards, entirely covered in mosaic.

In addition to exploring the mosaic sites, we know these areas well: the cafés, the local studios and the back streets. On all of these trips you are accompanied by either Stephanie Jurs, an American mosaicist (Twin Dolphin Mosaics) and experienced travel guide, who has lived in Ravenna for the past eleven years, and/or staff from Kokomosaico. Visiting these sites with working mosaicists who live here will increase your appreciation and understanding of what the sites have to offer. The excursions can stand alone or form part of your mosaic course at Kokomosaico.

Each excursion is planned individually according to your preferences. Price depends on the length of the excursion and the number of people participating. Please write Stephanie at twindolphinmosaics@yahoo.com for more information, prices, and to make a reservation.

Websites:
kokomosaico
twindolphinmosaics

In occasione del primo festival internazionale del mosaico contemporaneo


Sede: via G. Pasolini 45
Visualizzazione ingrandita della mappa Edizioni del Girasole

dal 10 ottobre al 20 novembre 2009


La mostra Bibliomosaico a tema nasce da un’idea di Rosetta Berardi con l’intenzione di stimolare i giovani artisti/mosaicisti a una riflessione sulla forma del libro e chiamarli alla prova sulla rappresentazione di un oggetto “libro” che chiede di essere guardato e non letto, un libro “non libro”, un “libro oggetto”, un libro che pur avendo perduto il suo contenuto di parole ha guadagnato un suo specifico significato concettuale di opera aperta con la quale ogni artista può creare forme nuove.
Un esercizio di creatività che comunica attraverso la tecnica musiva la propria libera autonomia espressiva.


L’invito è rivolto a nove giovani mosaicisti:

FILIPPO BANDINI (Ravenna),
LUCA BARBERINI (Ravenna),
ANIKO FERREIRA DA SILVA per CaCO3 (Ravenna),
ARIANNA GALLO (Ravenna),
FRANCESCA GISMONDI (Ravenna),
ARMIN GRATHWOHL (Germania),
TAKAKO HIRAI (Giappone),
ELISA SIMONI (Ravenna),
MATYLDA TRACEWSKA (Polonia).


Sono tante e diffuse le realizzazioni di libri d’artista con parti che riutilizzano materiali esistenti ed altre confezionate con ricami su tessuti o con cartoncini colorati o con plexiglas o con legno e materiali vari i cui risultati sono sempre pieni di fascino e di preziosità. Non si tratta del libro che diviene opera ma dell’opera che diviene o richiama il libro.
Queste opere musive sono realizzate appositamente per lo spazio che le accoglie: fra i libri di carta appunto.

Ecco una mostra da non perdere in occasione del primo festival internazionale del mosaico contemporaneo

Sede: Galleria Mirada Libreria interno4 - Via Mazzini n.83 - Ravenna
Periodo: dal 10 ottobre al 28 novembre

Una mostra che gioca, già dal titolo, sull’ambiguità dei materiali e delle parole. Il termine opus è tipico di alcune tradizionali tecniche del mosaico (opus sectile, opus reticulatum, ecc.), ma ovviamente non esiste l’opus quotidianum. E’ di fatto l’opera quotidiana di ricerca sul tradimento delle immagini date dai media che ha impegnato l’artista Costantini da diversi anni ad essere tradotta in una forma contemporanea e pop dallo staff di Koko mosaico. Tutti i cartoni difatti sono tratti da immagini tratte da “quotidiani” di vario genere, interpretati dalla linea sapiente del disegnatore ravennate. Un progetto realizzato per il Festival del Mosaico di Ravenna alla prima edizione che racconta dell’oggi assorbendo la lezione del passato.

This stimulating mix of hands-on followed by a week of touring the best mosaic sites and studios in Northern Italy will leave you with a deeper understanding and appreciation of both traditional mosaics and contemporary mosaic expression.
Your hosts, teachers and guides are Stephanie Jurs of Twin Dolphin Mosaics, and Arianna Gallo and Luca Barberini of Kokomosaico.


Arianna and Luca have been teaching traditional mosaics for years and have worked in or with most of the Ravenna studios; Stephanie has been making broken tile mosaics, as one-half of Twin Dolphin Mosaics, for almost twenty years and guiding trips in Italy for seven. Working and travelling with us you’ll get a perspective on Italy and mosaics (both ancient and contemporary) that’s pretty unique.
We’ll visit some private studios and see some mosaic sites that we know about just because we live here, that aren’t in any guide books.


We’ll all meet up Sunday evening in Ravenna for a welcome aperitivo and a delicious dinner of local specialities.
The first five days are spent at Kokomosaico, learning the traditional methods used for both Roman and Byzantine mosaics. After an introduction to the history of mosaics and a visit to Ravenna’s world-famous monuments, you’ll make two mosaics of your own under the expert tutelage of Arianna and Luca.
You’ll learn to cut marble and glass into tiny tessere, and using the double reverse method you’ll make a copy of a fragment of an ancient mosaic. Next you’ll design your own mosaic pattern and execute it using the direct method. Both pieces will be finished by the end of the week and you can take with, or ship them home. (For advanced mosaicists, there are numerous other topics and techniques to explore.)


Then with Stephanie, an American mosaicist who has been living in Ravenna for over ten years, you’ll begin a week-long tour of some of the finest mosaic sites northern Italy has to offer. In Ravenna itself and nearby we find mosaics ranging from the first century AD, through naive and soulful medieval mosaics, right up to present-day expression.
On Sunday we take off for Pomposa, with the remains of the 11th century Benedictine monastery whose church floor writhes with mosaic animals and geometric patterns.
During the week we visit Spilimbergo, home to a lively community of mosaicists whose mosaic philosophy differs sharply from that of Ravenna’s; Aquileia, northern Italy’s most important archeological site with a Basilica literally carpeted with early Christian mosaics; and Venice, where we’ll span the centuries admiring the mosaics of St Mark’s, the 11th century mosaics on the island of Torcello, and the splendour of the Orsoni glass and gold factory.

Specifics: This is a custom course/tour. With a maximum of seven participants, the course/tour begins in Ravenna and ends in Venice and runs from Sunday to the Saturday two weeks later, 14 days/13 nights.
The cost includes a welcome aperitivo and dinner Sunday night, the five day (40 hours) mosaic workshop and all materials, accommodation in Ravenna (breakfast included) through Saturday night, accommodation in Spilimbergo and Venice, breakfasts, transfers/transport/car, museum entries and guided visits, studio visits, and a farewell dinner in Venice.
Price assumes hotel room double occupancy. Supplement of $250 for single rooms (unfortunately, single rooms are not just ½ price of a double. You can ask to share with another student, to make a double.)
To keep costs down most dinners are ‘free’ dinners. In Ravenna we orient you to nearby excellent restaurants; during the tour we eat together but just order off the menu. This way one can eat as much or as little as one wants, or even skip a meal; each night will take us to a different restaurant with a different atmosphere. Lunch we do on our own, often buying picnic supplies, or maybe stopping at a small local trattoria or bar/café.
Price does not cover: ‘free’ dinners, lunches, and transport to and from our initial/ending meeting spots, shipping your mosaics home (if you do not take them with you), personal expenditures, etc.

Websites:
kokomosaico
twindolphinmosaics


For more information and details, contact Stephanie at twindolphinmosaics@yahoo.com

Per informazioni sui costi e per prenotare, vi preghiamo di contattarci via e-mail info@kokomosaico.com oppure di telefonarci in laboratorio 0544 465190

Alla trattoria cubana da Irma e Pino, sul porto canale di Marina di Ravenna, oltre a servire un ottimo pesce alla griglia, hanno pensato bene di proporlo ai clienti anche sotto una altra forma, a forma di mosaico. Difatti la facciata del ristorante è decorata con copie di mosaici pavimentali romani della Tunisia, raffiguranti putti che cavalcano e giocano con pesci di vario genere e misura.I tre mosaici sono stati realizzati con la tecnica diretta su supporto provvisorio, tramite l’utilizzo di tessere marmoree e lapidee rigorosamente tagliate a mano.  

La famiglia Modanesi, proprietaria dell’ hotel Eros Residence di Cervia (RA) ci ha commissionato diverse opere, tra cui l’interpretazione tridimensionale della vela di famiglia, vero e proprio stemma usato come mezzo di distinzione dai pescatori cervesi, in modo da riconoscersi in alto mare in un tempo, dove l’unico strumento di bordo era la bussola. Questa struttura tridimensionale è stata eseguita completamente in vetroresina dallo scultore Antonio Barbadoro, il nostro staff ha poi rivestito la superfice a mosaico con la “tecnica diretta su supporto definitivo”, utilizzando rigorosamente tessere tagliate a mano di pasta vitrea e di marmo.
L’insegna dell’ hotel, è stata tradotta in mosaico, utilizzando la tecnica tradizionale ravennate,”tecnica diretta su supporto provvisorio” .
Ci attendono nuovi lavori per l’hotel eros residence,
la storia continuna…..