Koko Mosaico - Mosaici e Corsi di Mosaico

Mosaic course schedule

Arianna — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:08:13 +0000

2013

April 8-12; 15-19; 22-26; 29-3.

May 6-10; 13-17; 20-24; 27-31.

June 3-7; 10-14; 17-21; 24-28.

July 1-5; 8-12; 15-19; 22-26; 29-2.

August 5-9; 19-23; 26-30.

September 2-6; 9-13; 16-20; 23-27; 30-4.

October 7-11; 14-18; 21-25.

November 4-8; 11-15; 18-22; 25-29.

December 2-6; 9-13; 16-20.

coming soon the 2014 schedule

Please contact us to book your mosaic course

Three and a half day tour of mosaics

Arianna — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:32:46 +0000

The Mosaic Riches of Ravenna and Romagna

International Festival of Contemporary Mosaic Third Edition: RavennaMosaico

The International Festival of Contemporary Mosaic (third edition) begins on Saturday October 12th with a range of openings, conferences, exhibitions and festivities.
To complement the activities, Kokomosaico and Twin Dolphin Mosaics are offering a three and a half day tour of mosaics both historical and contemporary here in Ravenna and the surrounding areas beginning on October 14th. Following an aperitivo Monday night at the Kokomosaico studio and an introduction to mosaic history and materials, we’ll take day-trips Tuesday through Thursday, visiting sites throughout the region with Stephanie Jurs (Twin Dolphin Mosaics) and Arianna Gallo (Kokomosaico) as your guides. Each day at lunch we’ll eat together in a typical trattoria or share a picnic; each evening we’ll return to Ravenna in time for dinner and meet again the next morning.
This tour is both educational and a great way to get to know the area. (Most of the sites we visit are not easily reached by public transportation.) We will learn about the Roman techniques of laying a mosaic floor then see examples of floors and decorative mosaics that have survived close to 2,000 years. We’ll view the naïve, almost childlike mosaics done in the Middle Ages that are nevertheless imbued with a humble spirituality: these mosaics conjure up a time of griffins and unicorns, of two tailed mermaids, and of men setting off for the Crusades. And we’ll see contemporary mosaics, both decorative and functional, as well as works that use the medium for personal expression.
Your guides are Stephanie Jurs (Twin Dolphin Mosaics) and Arianna Gallo (Kokomosaico).

Cost: 390 euros

Includes: Welcome aperitivo (7:30 pm) and introduction to the tour, three full days of touring (approximately 9:00 am to 5:00 pm), all transportation, museum entries, services of two guides(professional mosaicists) and a final night dinner at the beach.
Not included: cost of lunches, overnight lodging, and items of a personal nature. (We are happy to suggest lodging options suited to your tastes and budget.)

Minimum of five people, maximum of ten.

The itinerary is subject to slight changes due to weather, unforeseen circumstances or merely in order to take advantage of local offerings. For more information or to reserve a space, please send an email to
contact@twindolphinmosaics.com

Itinerary:

Monday Oct 14th: aperitivo at Kokomosaic studio, 7:30 pm. Brief history of mosaics and materials, overview of the tour, and an introduction to the works of Twin Dolphin Mosaics and Kokomosaico.
Tuesday Oct 15th: On our first full day we’ll head south of Ravenna, to visit Sarsina, birthplace of the Roman poet Plautus, and a thriving Roman community already in the 3rd century BC. The archeological museum there displays a huge polychromatic mosaic replete with the four winds and Dionysus in his chariot pulled by tigers. Other Roman-era mosaics are exhibited in the stairwell and on the upper floors. After lunch in a typical trattoria, we’ll visit the Villa Romana in Russi, with its well-preserved lay-out of a Roman country house and working farm. The black and white marble mosaic floors are an education in themselves.

Wednesday Oct 15th: Ravenna is famous for her UNESCO World Heritage monuments and mosaics, but there are many less well-known mosaics throughout the city. On our morning walking tour we’ll visit many of these treasures, dating from the Middle Ages to the present, then pick up our picnic fixings at the local open-air market. In the afternoon we may visit Forli or Faenza, cities on the ancient Via Emilia, to delve more into the region’s past, or perhaps head north to Pomposa, site of a Benedictine monastery in the Middle Ages, once the most important spiritual and cultural center of the region. The patchwork church floor includes fantastical animals executed in mosaic.

Thursday Oct 16th: Our last day takes us to Rimini, once an important Roman town and still a chic seaside resort. We’ll visit not only the excavations from a Roman surgeon’s house with its mosaics still in place, but also other sites attesting to ancient Arminium’s importance to the area. Our walk through town will take us by a contemporary mosaic fountain and weather permitting, for a stroll on the beach. Returning to Ravenna we’ll enjoy a last night dinner together out at the beach, at one of Ravenna’s best-known fish restaurants.

Twin Dolphin Mosaics: Stephanie Jurs and Robert Stout have been creating tile mosaics since 1990. Their primary material is solid-body porcelain tile. Much of their work has been commissioned by public art entities in New Mexico, Oregon, and Florida and can be found at universities, in museums, commercial buildings and private residences. Twice winners of the International Spectrum Award, they continue to create mosaics for both public and private clients in their studio in Ravenna. www.twindolphinmosaics.com

Kokomosaico : Arianna Gallo and Luca Barberini both graduated from the Mosaic Institute Severini in Ravenna in the early 90s. Arianna completed the three year course at the Mosaic Restoration School. Both of them have worked in or with most of the major studios and mosaicists in Ravenna, and in 2005 they inaugurated their own studio, Kokomosaico. Their professional work includes restoring and reproducing Roman and Byzantine mosaics, teaching mosaic classes, and creating contemporary mosaics on commission. www.kokomosaico.com

CAD course for mosaicists

Arianna — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:46:27 +0000

Duration: 15 hours

Participants: Limited to eight

 Prerequisite: Basic computer skills  

Course objective: The CAD course provides pertinent information as how to best utilize the software; the course is not limited to a description of the functions and commands but suggests a methodology applicable to the mosaic process. 

Program  

1 Monday 14.30-18.30 – the CAD
Introduction to CAD, principal commands for the management of a project

  2 Tuesday 14.30-18.00 – Geometric design
Tools for the creation of a design, fundamentals of geometry  

3 Thursday 14.30-18.00 – Design and reproduction  
Reproduction of a mosaic design using CAD   

4 Friday 14.30-18.30 – CAD and craft  
Preparation of detailed designs for production

  
Subsequent recommended courses:
Basic AutoCAD 3D   

Instructor: Marco Miccoli

Cost: € 230,00

TILE MOSAIC COURSE

Arianna — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:11:43 +0000

Instructor: Robert Stout of Twin Dolphin Mosaics

Kokomosaico, in collaboration with Robert Stout of Twin Dolphin Mosaics, is offering a week long tile mosaic course.
Ceramic tile is a versatile mosaic material, perfectly suited to creating quality artwork. Robert and his wife, Stephanie Jurs, have been creating tile mosaics for over twenty years; their work ranges from small wall pieces to large mosaic pavements, many of which are public art commissions for US universities and museums.
The techniques used and the resulting ‘feel’ of tile mosaics are quite different from those of mosaics made with glass or marble.
During this five day course students will create a 12-16” square mosaic using solid-body porcelain tiles. This material is an unglazed commercial ceramic tile, high fired, suitable for both interior and exterior applications. A solid color throughout, it breaks easily with either a hammer or nippers.
A course appropriate for beginners as well as advanced mosaicists, students will participate in each phase of production as they create their own piece, and learn techniques suitable for large or small scale works.

The course is 40 hours, Monday to Friday; the cost of 660€ covers taxes, insurance, all instruction and materials, use of tools, and the mosaic created during the course.

In 2006 and 2009 Twin Dolphin Mosaics received Spectrum Awards, annual international awards honouring outstanding and imaginative uses of tile.
Some photos of their work can be seen on a Kokomosaico flickr page:

The Twin Dolphin website:

Ravennas tecnique – direct technique on temporary support

luca — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:07:06 +0000

Reticolo positivo

reticolo negativo

stesura del grassello di calce

grassello di calce spianato

stampa del reticolo negativo

realizzazione del mosaico

mosaico terminato sul grassello di calce

stesura della colla

distacco dell’opera

retro del mosaico

eliminazione del grassello di calce

pulitura da retro

stesura della sabbia

spugnatura

stesura della colla cementizia

fissaggio del telaio

fissaggio

battitura

distacco della colla

lavaggio della superficie dai resti della colla

stuccatura

rimozione dello stucco in eccesso

stesura dell’intonaco finale

copia di mosaico pavimentale di periodo romano

terminata

Mosaic tables – mosaic art becomes functional

luca — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:57:24 +0000

A decoration or an accurate search of art and design?

tavolo 3faces

bancone tecnica mista

tavolo aut doar

tavolo “coffe table”

GAEM – the 10 selected works

luca — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:43:23 +0000

First International Prize GAEM - Young Artists and Mosaic The 10 Select Works

Jury President: Claudio Spadon
Art critic, Director of the Ravenna Art Museum

Maria Rita Bentini
Art critic, Coordinator of the Ravenna Academy of Fine Arts

Linda Kniffitz
Curator of CIDM

Gian Pietro Brovedani
Director of Friuli Mosaic School

Lucio Orsoni
Orsoni Smalti Veneziani

Dusciana Bravura
Artist

have selected the following works:

Bone flowers
di Luca Barberini (Ravenna 21 agosto1981)

Movimento n. 18
di CaCO3 (Âniko Ferriera Da Silva Ravenna 6 aprile 1976; Giuseppe Donnaloia Martina Franca, Taranto 27 maggio 1976; Pavlos Mavromatidis Kavala, Grecia 28 ottobre 1976)

Senza Titolo
di Naghmeh Farahvash Fashandi (Teheran 22 settembre 1981)

Diecimila
di Benedetta Galli (Perugina 17 dicembre 1976)

Soft
di Roberta Grasso (Torino 6 febbraio 1986)

Istinto
di Takako Hirai (Kumamoto, Giappone 03 maggio 1975)

Unspoken 10.22.10 – XX. XX. 11
di Samantha Holmes (Carmel, New York USA 16 luglio 1984)

Fall
di Sonya Louro Do Rego (Johannesburg, Sudafrica 12 agosto 1977)

Presenza
di Sergio Policicchio (Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, Argentina 20 novembre 1985)

La grafica
di Alice Viviani (Trieste 30 aprile 1989)

PEBBLE MOSAIC COURSE

luca — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:34:20 +0000

Instructor: Luciano Bonzini

Kokomosaico in collaboration with Luciano Bonzini is offering a week-long pebble mosaic course October 10-14 2011. Course attendees will learn the basics of this ancient technique, participating fully in all phases of the process, from the selection of materials to the preparation of the mortar, from the placement of pebbles to the finishing touches.

Working individually and in groups, participants will create and install a pebble mosaic in the garden area of the B&B Capanetti in Ravenna. The B&B reserves rooms at a discounted price for those participants who elect to stay there for the duration of the course.

The 20 hour course takes place over five mornings, Monday to Friday.

Space is limited.

Please reserve your space by July 2011 by contacting us via email:

info@kokomosaico.com

or by telephone at +39 0544 465190

The cost of the course is €450, which covers instruction, taxes, materials and the use of tools. At the end of the course participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance.

Participants in the pebble mosaic course who wish to take an afternoon course at Kokomosaico will receive a 10% discount on the price of a course.

They can choose between the beginner’s course (Ravenna technique) or the advanced course (modern mosaic).

RAVENNA MOSAICO 2011

Arianna — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:08:57 +0000

8 OCTOBER / 20 NOVEMBER

After the success achieved in the first edition held in 2009, two years after Ravenna promote the second edition of the international festival of contemporary mosaic RavennaMosaico due on 2011 from 8th October to the 20th November.

RavennaMosaico presents itself as a showcase of the best contemporary productions and offers thoughts on the vocation of the city, in the light of the candidature of Ravenna as European Capital of Culture for 2019. The event will involve the entire city and cultural institutions in a program dedicated to the contemporary mosaic, proposing in the most beautiful places of the historical center, exhibitions of artists from around the world, urban installations, performances, concerts, conferences, workshops, meetings, and guided tours.

RavennaMosaico is open to different types of works: installations and mosaic works, and pictures of mosaic works inserted in architectonic projects. Four selection are available curated by: – Municipality of Ravenna and AIMC Association International of Contemporary Mosaicist: for the selection of mosaic works for the exhibition Works from the World and Installations, and pictures which show the relationship between contemporary mosaic and architecture for the exhibition Mosaic Architecture; – Art Museum of the City of Ravenna MAR and CIDM – International Centre for Documentation on Mosaic: for International Prize GAEM – Young Artists and Mosaic – CNA: for the design of two mosaic works which will be collocated in the Cinema and Congress Palace and in the new head seat of CNA

RavennaMosaico – Primo Festival Internazionale di Mosaico Contemporaneo Servizio Turismo e Attività Culturali – Home

AFTER AFTER

luca — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:55:25 +0000

After After, a look at the condition of art in Ravenna.

Ni art gallery, Ravenna

From 19th march 2011 to 16th april

Artists:

Luca Barberini,

Mattia Battistini,

Dusciana Bravura,

CaCO3,

Gianluca Costantini,

Valeria Ercolani,

Arianna Gallo,

Roberta Grasso,

Takako Hirai,

Silvia Naddeo,

Giorgia Severi,

Atsuo Suzumura,

Filippo Tazzari,

Matylda Tracewska.