Gloria Canestrini: Radio meets art graphics: the book RadioDepero

Gloria Canestrini introduces the editorial experience related to the publication of the book RadioDepero, printed by Area Studio in serigraphy in the 50×70 cm format, with interviews and texts from the eponymous program produced for RAI. The event takes place at the City Museum, where the exhibition Area Studio, color, matrix, paper is underway. The print workshop, the artists, and Abstract Objectivity are dedicated to an artisanal and artistic project that, over two decades of activity, has served as a reference point for artists, publishers, gallerists, collectors, standing out for technical precision, experimentation, and ongoing dialogue with visual research. Not only a place of production but also a space for meeting and discussion, the print shop has embodied a cultural model based on the transmission of knowledge, the quality of craftsmanship, and the centrality of the creative process.

Gloria Canestrini

Born in Rovereto in 1953, after graduating in the fall of 1972, she moved to Milan to work at Renato Volpini’s large art printing house Multirevol. The following year, returning to Rovereto, she founded the Area Studio printing house with Maurizio Giongo, which later opened in Milan and later in Paris. In 1977, she designed and directed Area Studio Film, which quickly became an audiovisual production center for auteur animated films. This experimentation, and in particular the cut-out and silhouette technique, led her to collaborate with Rai 2 in Milan for the programs Clorofilla and Occhio al cielo, with the Rai headquarters in Trento for programs and programs (Laboratorio ‘80, Strips, Brevi di Rosa, il Guardarte etc.) for animated theme songs (L’acchiappafarfalle, Oriente Occidente) and various short films (Giochi di Anguàne, l’Orso il frate lo stregone (which opened the Filmfestival della montagna in Trento in 1981), Boxing the drums, La polenta, La giara (made with the students of the Ala Middle School) and Conosce i tuoi diritti? (made with the cinematography students of the Depero Institute in Rovereto). Some of these films were presented in national and international festivals (Milan, Turin, Lucca comics, Pergine Spettacolo aperto, Rome, Montreal, Paris, Marseille, Ljubljana). Since 1980, after the After graduating in law and starting his legal career, he began writing radio plays for RAI, screenplays, novels, essays (including RadioDepero, a 50×70 cm volume entirely screen-printed by Area Studio and bound in bolts, which features the transcription of the eponymous Rai Radio1 radio program), and illustrated stories. He also began collaborating regularly with newspapers and magazines, particularly with Hachette’s Home, for which he created illustrations for a column. Since 2012, he has directed the art publishing house Disegnograve together with Maurizio Giongo.

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