HISTORY

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¨.
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.
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.