collography-carborundum

Collography is a non-engraving technique, which consists in the use of materials of different nature, superimposed and glued together, to obtain a matrix to be inked and printed. A base of cardboard, cloth, paper, adhesive tape, plaster is usually used Modeling clays are some of the materials that can be used in this technique.

Carborundum is the trade name of an artificial abrasive, used with water resistant glues. It is a direct procedure that gives particularly pictorial results. The first to use this technique was Henry Goetz (1909-1989). It was also used by J. Mirò and other artists of the Goetz Academy in Paris.