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| HISTORY
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| Alberto Sergio
Terrani was born in the middle of last century. When he was
seventeen years old, he intuitively began to work on leather.
That was the moment when, together with the hippie movement,
handicrafts were revalued. Crafts fairs started-first in Plaza
Francia, then San Telmo with antiques and crafts and San Isidro.
He showed and sold his leather works in all of them for a short
time.At that moment he only made belts and plain bags. |
| Soon his restless
spirit made him travel around Europe. He settled down in Ibiza
for some years. There he had a workshop and produced a great
amount of bags with much more elaborated designs and leather
work. At the same time he attended courses in Morocco on leather
treatment, finish and dying techniques. |
| Back in Argentina
he started to make the leather
pieces you can see on this site. Definitely far from his
first belts, he began a new research stage on new techniques
and non-traditional ways of working the leather: he turns it
(train,
chess
pieces, cigarette
lighter,
ashtray) and rolls it up (chess,
pen-holder) to achieve volume. With selected and toughened
tanned leather he makes
lots of boxes without wooden base, and in the series of
tapestries, he mixes tanned and uncured leather, installing
light in its interior to take advantge creatively of the uncured
leather transparency.(Nebulosa,
Vitraux,
Light Box). |
| This work was
highly recognized in different reviews published in the most
important
newspapers of this capital, and it was
awarded prizes in all the exhibition rooms where it was
presented. At that time he wrote the
book ¨Works in Leather¨ comitted by the editorial
Centro Editor de América Latina for its collection ¨Practical
Courses¨. |
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Twenty two years ago, he devoted himself to the acknowledgment
of the latest technologies that very much influenced on the
twentieth century, he then stopped making handicrafts to take
up video activities first and next graphic computing. |
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This year he started to work in leather again, making
the boxes and the large chest that can be seen in Present
Works. Now he used computing in the design of drawings for
his leather works and he also applied computing to do this site. |
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