Italic Calligraphy Retreat in France
In August 2015, I attended a calligraphy workshop in Saint Antoine l’Abbaye (France) under the tuition of Keith Adams. The course started on a Monday night and finished the following Sunday, spending an average of 8 hours a day writing Italic calligraphy.
I have done may calligraphy courses in the past, and I have to say this one is my favourite: the workshop is located in France, in the middle of the mountains, inside an old Abbey without wifi connection. The food (the cheeses!), the teachers and my classmates are always great and it is a privilege to just be there and focus all my attention and energy on letterforms.
This year I decided to attend both calligraphy workshops, starting with italic. This the amazing location.
My final project is called “run” and is an homenage to the move “Run Lola Run” (1998 German film written and directed by Tom Tykwer). I wanted to establish a parallelism between the movie and the meaning of the Latin word curso (run in English) associated with the origins of the italic calligraphy.
The top flourishes represent the loops and running circuits that Lola has to undertake during all movie.
“Cinema that interests me is cinema about openings, unresolved questions and experiments without refusing chaos, chance, destiny or the unexpected”
Run Lola Run, directed by Tom Tyker establishes the core ideas which are chance and time.
The main part of the film is divided in three runs. Each run starts from the same situation but develops differently and has a different outcome.
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