In 1978, on the initiative of Max Schoendorff, some artists joined to save from an imminent destruction a bankrupt and outdated(obsolete) lithographic printing of Lyon. This safeguarded heritage (press, hundred-year-old lithographic stones), it was necessary to define use(custom). It is in the service(department) of creation since lithographic activity came back to life. Today, an old(former) factory of 1000 m ² shelters international Urdla-Centre print and deliver. It is about a Contemporary Arts Centre grouping(including) workshops(studios) of impression(printing) (lithograph, line-engraving, size of savings, typography(typeface)), a gallery and a bookshop. The association connects(binds) so the protection(saving) of a heritage, the support for contemporary creation, and distribution(broadcasting) of its productions to the amateurs, collectors and school. Urdla chooses and invites a dozen of plastic surgeons a year and offers them the possibility of practising the original engraving during residences. The engraving – generic term recovering all results(profits) of a process of impression(printing) — is characterised by the edition(drawing) of a limited number of copies numbered and signed by the artist, intended(designed) for sale. "Original" means that the artists work on the manufacturing of matrices, the technicians themselves making editions(drawings) then.
Access
Métro ligne A, arrêt Flachet ; Bus 69, arrêt Flachet.
Website
http://www.urdla.com
Phone
04 72 65 33 34
Other
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Address
207, rue Francis de Pressensé, 69100 Villeurbanne, Métropole de Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Métropole de Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France