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Early Exposure: Teaching Print Outside Higher Ed

Luciano Pozo

About the Artist

Luciano Pozo (Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1993). Bachelor of Arts from the National University of San Martín, UNSAM. In completion of Master’s Degree in History of Argentine and Latin American Art UNSAM. Visual artist and researcher in arts. Teach History of Art of the 20th Century – UNNOBA. He coordinates the circle of studies Expanded Arts and Education E-IDAES – UNSAM. His work focuses on experimentation with printed rose petals called Florisgraphy using a procedure created by him. He is currently experimenting with a mixture of collagen and pine resin varnish to preserve and build a textile made of rose petals.

Artist Statement

For the past few years, I have dedicated myself to experimenting with and conceptualizing an artistic practice that stems from expanded field printmaking. I have named this method Florisgraphy1 (it is currently in the patenting process at the IMPI, the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property) and it consists of making prints on rose petals and other flowers. The seed for developing this printing method is related to the theme of identity and an insult: “faggot flower.” The central focus of my practice today revolves around exploring my own identity and researching this printing method.  Developing artwork and working with an organic support that receives graphic images presents certain technical questions and challenges:

–Fragility of the support.

-Durability of the artwork.

-Receiving structure.

-Image transfer procedure onto petals.

-Long-term preservation: Part of this question has been resolved through the use of protective layers of a varnish based on calcium 2-ethylhexanoate and an organic cobalt salt.

I construct an artistic practice through a narrative poetics that is shaped by fragility and the rawness of words. I reflect on pain, and from that point, graphic pieces are generated at the intersection of graphic arts and bio-poetics. All my work is permeated by organic-natural and experimental research in intimate relation to the field of the arts, and is based on the poetic transformation of matter.

I conceive of the field of experimental/expanded printmaking as a meeting place between the workshop and the laboratory.

 

1For further information, see: Luciano Pozo. Florisgraphy: Modes of Production in Graphic Arts. Research on Alternative and Organic Materials in Contemporary Artistic Practice. A&D Journal of Art and Design, no. 9, Dec. 2022. Retrieved from: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/ayd/article/view/26738

 

Artist:

Luciano Pozo
Photo of artist NIcholas Ruth

Social media: @lucianopozo_

Exhibition

Early Exposure: Teaching Print Outside Higher Ed

A femme presenting individual with a Bob haircut faces ¾ to the left. They are printed in pink and blue, overlapping to make purple. The two layers are comprised of pink tiny scribbles placed very closely in a grid formation. The person hands are grabbing at their chest and have a far off expression on their face. A lime green square grid overlaps itself in the background and on top of the person, leaving part of their face and chest exposed. </p> <p>The print has distorted squares cut out of the paper. There is a bright pink scribble behind the cut out section, and in the upper right corner.<br />

Florisgraphic bio-printing process on a rose petal. 2022.

A quadriptych where each piece has its own plotter cut scribble atop a white sheet of BFK. Each shape is taken from previous work and scaled up. Each Mark is comprised of various shades of Fluorescent Pink, Fluorescent Blue, Purple and White.

Always Venus
Florisgraphy on a rose petal
2023

A white abstract form sits atop a Fluorescent Pink background. The White shape is textured with a tight debossed grid. The pink background has a subtle pattern comprised of small visual bursts

Always Venus
Miniprint, Florisgraphy on a rose petal
2023

A white plotter cut shape of an abstracted EKG of a panic attack sits upon a grid of green scribbles on a pink ground

ID Box X
Florisgraphy on a rose petal
2023

A plotter cut scribble covered with pink and a grid of green scribbles sits on a fluorescent pink background.

ID Box
Wooden box, Florisgraphy on a rose petal, typing, typewriting, magnifying glass and glass vials
2023

An abstract shape based on an abstracted EKG of a panic attack and given form. Inside this shape is a fluorescent pink wave pattern.

IX (fragments of ID)
Graphic procedures. Woodcut, typography, Florisgraphy, transfer, handmade paper. Direct inking on paper, canvas, and rose petals
2022/2025

A fluorescent pink abstract shape sits atop a background grid pattern comprised of much smaller abstract scribbled marks in a light teal color.

Self-portrait in the workshop. Letterpress.

Workshop. Letterpress.

Teaching activity: Arts Week. President Raúl Alfonsín School. National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, UNNOBA. 2022.

Teaching activity: Arts Week. President Raúl Alfonsín School. National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, UNNOBA. 2022.

Teaching activity: Arts Week. President Raúl Alfonsín School. National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, UNNOBA. 2022.

University teaching activity: Florisgraphic Printing Workshop. National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, UNNOBA. 2023.

University teaching activity: Florisgraphic Printing Workshop. National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, UNNOBA. 2023.

University teaching activity: Florisgraphic Printing Workshop. National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, UNNOBA. 2023.

Teaching activity: Experimental graphic activity, President Raúl Alfonsín School. National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, UNNOBA. 2025.

Teaching activity: Experimental graphic activity, President Raúl Alfonsín School. National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, UNNOBA. 2025.

Teaching activity: Letterpress Workshop. Engraving and experimental graphics. Secretariat of Extension, National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, UNNOBA. 2025.

Teaching activity: Letterpress Workshop. Engraving and experimental graphics. Secretariat of Extension, National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, UNNOBA. 2025.

Teaching activity: Letterpress Workshop. Engraving and experimental graphics. Secretariat of Extension, National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, UNNOBA. 2025.

Teaching activity: Letterpress Workshop. Engraving and experimental graphics. Secretariat of Extension, National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, UNNOBA. 2025.

Teaching activity: celebration of the Mona Lisa. Graphic stencil. Primary level. 2nd grade (7 years old), 2025.

ID Loop
Graphic installation
Woodcut on 180 gsm exact register paper
400 x 50 cm
2025

ID Loop
Graphic installation
Woodcut on 180 gsm exact register paper
400 x 50 cm
2025

Florisgraphy. Bio-printing on flower petals
2024

Publication that received the Junín Patronage award. Sponsored by Banco Galicia.

Hardcover book with matte polypropylene laminate finish.
Interior printed on 170 gsm premium matte laminated illustration paper.
Dimensions: horizontal format, 21 x 15 cm.

Presentation of the book Florisgraphy. Bio-prints on flower petals.
Fundación Casa Pronto, España 383, Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Presentation of the book Florisgraphy. Bio-prints on flower petals.
Fundación Casa Pronto, España 383, Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Presentation of the book Florisgraphy. Bio-prints on flower petals.
Fundación Casa Pronto, España 383, Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Always Venus. Printing on register paper and using the Braille system. 2022.

Teaching activity: Letterpress Workshop. Engraving and experimental graphics. Secretariat of Extension, National University of Northwestern Buenos Aires Province, UNNOBA. 2025.

Lesson Plan

Engraving in the Classroom