New space
Factum Arte is looking for a new space in Madrid - due to continued growth we have outgrown our current premesis in Hilarión Eslava (Madrid) and will soon move to a new space.

We will be setting up an engineering workshop to develop a number of applications that we need to perfect our printing, scanning and fabrication works.

The Romanesque cloisters in the Cathedral of Tudela
Factum Arte's Carlos Bayod Lucini and Adam Lowe visited the Catedral de Tudela at the invitation of the Amigos de la Catedral de Tudela to inspect the rapid deterioration of the capitals and advise on their recording in 2 and 3 dimensions. This work is urgent and the Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation will send a team in the spring. Two of the most damaged columns will be fully recorded and the results compared to photographs taken at the end of the C19th and more recent ones. If these important works of romanesque carving are not recorded soon they will be lost forever.

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Schwittershytta facsimile opens at the Henie Onstad Art Centre
The facsimile of Kurt Schwitters' only remaining Merz building on the island of Hjertøya, Molde, opened at the Henie Onstad Art Centre in Norway. It is now an important part of the biggest permanent exhibition dedicated to Schwitters outside of Germany. This photo was taken by the center's director, Karin Hellandsjø. More information and additional images will be posted on the project's page soon.

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Two eeditions for La Caja Negra
A new series of photographs have been prepared as the first collaboration with artist Sergio Belinchón. A folding map has been produced for Ignasi Aballí.

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Works for Carlos Garaicoa
Carlos Garaicoa has been developing a body of routed and printed works in which black and white images are converted into relief topographies and routed into blocks of Polystyrene, as seen recently at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMΣT).

New photo-topographies and photographic images printed on bone will form part of Garaicoa's exhibition at Galleria Continua in February, titled Sin solución and visible from 11 February to 9 April. New tapestries are also in production.

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Sala Bologna
The Museo della Città in the Palazzo Pepoli Vecchio in Bologna opened to the public on the 27th January. Almost 6000 people visited the museum on its first day. Factum Arte's facsimile of the map of Bologna from the Sala Bologna in the Vatican is causing a great deal of interest.

The pubilcation about the history of the Sala Bologna, edited by Nadja Aksamija and Francesco Cecerelli has just been published by Marsillio. The book will be launched at the Palazzo Pepoli on the 9th March.

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Jan Hendrix
A new large scale project with Jan hendrix is being developed for installation outside the Museum of Fine Arts in Cancun, Mexico.

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Las artes de Piranesi, a touring exhibition
The exhibition that was staged for the Biennale of Architecture in Venice in 2010, Le Arti di Piranesi, will open at the CaixaForum in Madrid on April 24th, 2012. The exhibition, organised by Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Factum Arte, will then tour to CaixaForum in Barcelona before moving on to the USA. A group of six of the objects made after Piranesi's designs has gone on permanent display in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini whilst the second group will comprise the touring exhibition that will begin in 2012.

The recasting of the legs and wings of the Altar is almost complete. The base is also being remodelled by Juan Carlos Arias in a constant quest to perfect the Piranesi objects.

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Boris Savelev and The New Pictorialism
An essay had recently been posted by the photographic historian Francis Hodgson about the work on Annie Liebovitz and Boris Savelev.

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Ashurnasirpal II facsimile
Work is continuing to reunite (in facsimile form) all the fragments from the eastern end of the throneroom of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud. Following a meeting with the British museum work to make the routed sections in scagliola is now underway. Sebastian Beyró is starting to get a perfect match for the complex grey green Mosul Marble.

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Marc Quinn shells
Work continues with a new series of shells for Marc Quinn. The first 3 meter model is currently being cast in bronze and will soon be completed.

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Terra Firma
Following a visit to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Adam Lowe and Jerry Brotton are now developing the ideas and contents that will make up this exhibition scheduled to open during the Biennale of Art in Venice 2013.

Some lateral re-thinking about projections and points of view are currently being carried out with Grégoire Dupond.

The Miracle of Cana. The originality of re-production is now published
The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese: The biography of the painting, the creation of the facsimile and its theoretical implications.

Copies are available from Cierre Edizioni or they can be purchased from Factum Arte for 28 euros plus packing and postage.

Edited by Pasquale Gagliardi and published by Cierre Edizioni, it will be released before Christmas. The book, in english, is a reprint of the catalogue from 2007 that accompanied the unveiling of the facsimile. It is then supplemented by information about the making of the facsimile and the theoretical implications that have resulted from the separation of an idea of authenticity from that of originality.

In Jean Clair's new book L'hiver de la Culture he included a chapter entitled The Relic and the replica where he deals with similar issues (see above).

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New Laser Scanner
A video that follows the development of the laser scanner and discusses many of the issues that emerged while it was being made will be completed soon and posted, along with Factum Arte's other videos, on Vimeo.

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Grayson Perry - A new series of tapestries about Taste
Grayson Perry's tapestry Map of truth and Beliefs can be seen at his exhibition The tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, at the British Museum in London. This enormously popular exhibition has been extended until 26 February 2012.  Grayson is already working on a new series of tapestries about taste that will be exhibitied in London in May 2012.

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