Technical specifications

Costanza Ferrini, Liber. The Book of Olive Trees (2014-2021) work composed by 200 works of different sizes

Techniques and supports:

 

Felt cover

Cover: bas-relief of pink clay and metallic acrylic on black linen

 

ecoline, metallic gold with binder gouache on craft paper

calligraphy with Kalam n.9 and walnut husk ink on croquis paper 90g linocut engraving and fat charcoal

silver ink on black cardboard engraved brush clay and silver ink

calligraphic pen calligram and fat charcoal on the Fabriano Academy cardboard silver ink linocut engraving

sanguine pencil on black paper indelible sanguine indian ink calligram in black indian ink with nib

calligrams orange and sepia indian ink with nib clay bas-relief on cardboard

terre de feu ink

metallic gold ink with brush and nib graphite

indelible sepia ink on two layers on plastic and scan pastel and clay bas-relief on canvas paper and then scratched

calligraphic pen and collage with melange gray cardboard white ink by brush on melange gray cardboard

sepia with calligraphy pen, brush acrylic copper ink

silver gouache, turquoise ink on rough linen cardboard gold and silver ink with nib calligraphy on red paper collage on gray cardboard of fragments of Lokta red paper pink cardboard

watermarked cardboard with pastels frottage with fat charcoal

on orange cardboard red and green indian ink with nib collage graphite and pastels on elephant dung paper black indian ink and copper

watercolor card with brush calligraphy on burgundy card stock brush copper ink

green indian ink with nib pastel purple and gouache

brush silver ink and then pastel

nib with indian ink in the fold of the cardboard watercolor on craft paper

sepia indian ink brush on straw paper earths and metallic gold pastel

craft paper collage written with olivetti 32 typewriting machine and orange Lokta paper insert craft paper collage with Paris metro ticket, green and sepia indian ink

collage craft paper sepia brush calligraphy and watercolor paper with brush clay rubber engraving printed on Fabriano paper

calligram on cardboard gray-green color with nib

gray-green cardboard collage on Bristol blue Matisse, watercolor pencil, calligraphic pen Amalfi card

metallic gold applied with finger on brown paper

clay, earths, turquoise, sanguine, olive oil on watercolor paper chalk on watercolor paper

green gouache on gold tissue paper backing

metallic gold with binder, indian ink,scratched clay, mud, pastel and fat charcoal red ink on watercolor paper

brush with oxide calligraphy calligraphy pen on folds of food wrapping

oil color on straw paper vegetable cardboard

gold color for fabrics and copper ink on black rice paper calligraphic pen for calligram on red cardboard,table scissor cut nib calligraphy and calligram with kalam n. 9 with walnut husk ink blue lined notebook sheet third grade with black indian ink

letter paper for letter copies typewriting with Olivetti 32 silver brush ink on black Lokta paper

red and black Indian ink on Washi paper

pastels, Indian ink, metallic gold with binder on papier de mûrier

Indian ink, silver ink, metallic gold brush with sepia indian ink nib on rice paper

Quotations:

Abacuc, Etel Adnan, Luigi Alamanni, Sibilla Aleramo, Marguerite-Fahdma Aït Mansour Amrouche, Orazio Antinori, Ibn Al-Awwam, Angelo Barili, Francesco Biamonti, Giovanni Boine, Eavan Boland, Gesualdo Bufalino, Joseph Campbell, Albert Camus, René Char, Corniolo della Corgna, Dante,Grazia Deledda, Deuteronomio, Christophe Eloy, Eduardo de Filippo, Eschilo, Esiodo, Ugo Foscolo, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Francesco Agostino Gera, Fra’ Giordano da Giano, Gilgamesh, Jean Giono, Antonio Gramsci, Vincent Van Gogh, Golan Haji, Artem Haruthyunyan, Miguel Hernandez, Nazim Hikmet, Homer, Mimi Khalvati, Kastos, Omar Khayyam, Koran, Carlo Levi,Gabriel Levi, Federico Garcia Lorca, Lucretius, Al-Ma’arri, Gianna Manzini, Biagio Marin, Predrag Matvejevic, Bernabé Moya, Cosimo Moschettini, Nico Naldini,  Samira Negrouche, Vesna Parun, Platon, Cesare Pavese, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luigi Pirandello, Plinius, St. John Perse,Giovanni Presta, Rumi, Amina Saïd, Anthelme Brilllat-Savarin, Rosario Schicchi, Georges Seferis, Siracide, Leonardo Sinisgalli, Stesicorus, Junichiro Tanizaki, Teofrastus, Leonardo da Vinci, Virgilium, Xenofane, Mehmet Yashin.

 

Languages:

 Ancient Greek, Ancient Sicilian, Arabic, Armenian, English, French, Friulian, Italian, Kurdish Latin, Linear B, Modern Greek, Sardinian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish.