Archivio Nuvolo
The Archivio Nuvolo (the Nuvolo Archive) is a non-profit Cultural Association started in 2015 on the initiative of the Artist’s family to protect, manage and promote the legacy of the artist Nuvolo.
Nuvolo Ascani
His quiet and unpredictable appearances and disappearances on the hills during the partisan war gave him the nickname that would accompany him for the rest of his life: “Nuvolo” (Cloud).
Barely more than an adolescent, he showed qualities that were already part of a character that, when he became an adult, would transform him into a skilled experimenter of the screen-printing technique and enable him, in the quiet of his workshop and far from any clamor, to give life to one of the most peculiar artistic researches in Italian art history.
The medium is the screen printing frame, introduced in the school of his hometown, Città di Castello, an important printing center since the Fifteenth Century. However, since the middle of the Forties, screen printing had been used only by craftsmen or, in a more limited way, in industrial graphic design. Nuvolo felt a growing need to investigate its forms, understanding that serial reproducibility could be questioned. Thus, he bypassed the limits of that time by using dichromate gelatins, becoming the first person to experiment with photographic screen printing in Italy and opening the field to visual arts.
Pictorial cycles
AFTERMANDELBROT
Nuvolo Ascani, 1989-1993
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The atelier of graphics
While developing his own artistic work, Nuvolo has always maintained a craftsman’s ethic, which comes from his town’s traditional printing skill but also from intellectual consciousness of his land’s artistic ancestry.
The absolute mastery of screen printing shown in his first years in Rome (1945/50) transformed him into a valuable contributor for those Italian innovative artists featured in the Gruppo Origine and in its Arti Visive magazine, which hosted some of his first screen printing works. Nuvolo’s graphic activity started in that same magazine with the serial reproduction of two covers and two illustrations of Ettore Colla’s works and one work by Amerigo Tot.
The progressive improvement of colors and screen printing frames was matched by the author’s skills and by the technical solutions he adopted, distinguishing him as a unique artist in the Italian art’s graphic production. Nuvolo was not an “executor” but a sought-after contributor who could interact and understand the best solution to adopt, sometimes with surprising results for the authors.
