Xalubinia International Printmaking Centre
In 1992, while Barcelona was busy with the Olympics, two artists, Pere Pons (Alaior, Minorca, 1949) and Ángel Ramazzi (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1944 - Motril, Spain, 2003) founded the Xalubinia Printmaking Workshop in Granada, and they also developed a new technique that allows producing colour prints from a single iron plate. This is a beautiful example... And in Pere Pons's blog you can see many other. Later Xalubinia produced two ambitious projects commissioned by UNESCO: the books of prints and texts Tolerancia (Tolerance) in 1995 and III Milenio (Third Millenium) in 1999. Ángel Ramazzi passed away in 2003 and later Pere Pons met two young artists who had trained at the Ar Students League of New York. They were Colombian Natalia Tamayo and Spanish José Maria Cáceres. by Jose Caceres Their collaboration and an incredible amount of work and energy resulted in the creation of the International Printmaking Centre in Alaior in 2007, which has s...