Mixed Republic is a platform from where to spread the word of handmade printing world, through its diffusion and production. We search for mutual understanding with new creative proposals and slow production techniques, which connect both the mind and the heart through the hands.
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Katsutoshi Yuasa’s woodcut prints reveal themselves slowly, as though the wealth of detail contained within them is only just coalescing. Complex, evocative, and exquisitely finished, they bear the hallmarks of an artist who is steeped in his medium’s traditions; but they also retain a decidedly contemporary edge. His subjects hint at fragments of modern experience: the images flicker and shift as if on a computer screen or television set, raked with digital noise (Maggie Gray).
I would define myself as a polymath. I've always been an inventor and I've always loved drawing. I studied Graphic Design, but also engraving, bookbinding, silk-screen printing and illustration. We could say that these are the tools at my disposal and each will take more importance in one or another project, depending on its characteristics.
2015 ends and Mixed Republic is 7 months old already. For us, they have been 7 intense months working hand by hand with people we deeply admire for their work and professionalism, people from every corner of the world, from Argentina to Japan, from United States to Greece or France.
In 2005 Susann Pönisch who lives and works in Berlin, Germany, began to print her drawings in the "Fleischerei", an open screen printing workshop in Berlin-Mitte. Since that time, screen printing has become an important part of the artistic work of Susann. The stencils for the prints are produced by the direct drawing on tracing paper with a variety of materials, such as acrylic, charcoal, ink, gouache and fineliner. There are built, layer by layer, prints from which emerge books, series or unique pieces at the end.
Today we highlight the work of Federico Cimatti, alma máter of Prensa La Libertad in Argentina. From this letterpress studio he creates typographical works that spread through the world types of revolution and freedom.
Monostereo, as a silk-screen printing workshop, is composed of two main printers (Gemma and Abel). We began working arround 2008 until later on we decided to invest all of our energies in the common project.