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The PaperKraft Trap is an initiative of Verónica Bape, Ernesto Alva and Rubén Morales Lara. It is a multi-edition project in which five artists are invited to graphically intervene a special PaperKraft for each edition created by a guest designer.

In this edition the PaperKraft is a design by Daniela Medina, intervened by Daniel Alcalá, Alex Bolio, Elizabeth De Jesús, José Porras and Jimena Schlaepfer.

Art collectors, managers, art historians, artists, art students and anyone who is interested in acquiring quality pieces of art at an affordable price.

The print run consists of 100 numbered copies and it was finished editing in July 2012 in La Trampa, Gráfica Contemporánea. Mexico City.

Edition 49/100  

Asking $50. SALE

Founded in 2009 and established in the Historic Center of Mexico City, La Trampa. Gráfica Contemporánea has established itself, first, as an engraving workshop and, later, as a space for reflection and dissemination around the languages ​​of drawing and graphic art. Ernesto Alva  and  Rubén Morales Lara, its guides, have achieved the inclusion of agents and creators in a system that facilitates multiple collaborations, in which creative freedom is recognized as well as the exchange and feedback of experiences, mainly artistic and editorial. In this space, the projects or production intentions of the creators are translated in terms of the knowledge and skills of the graphic trade, the best way to resolve the impressions is subjected to collective consideration and the different processes that guide artistic production are attended to. from the conception of the work to its final edition. In this route, concerns about the materiality inherent to graphic art are crossed, which is a constant reason for reflection, conversation, workshops,

Dialogue is key to resolving issues. That Ernesto Alva and Rubén Morales combine their artistic practice with their training as editors and printers, supposes the establishment of communication codes within the workshop that allow discussing the possibilities and alternatives to resolve the reproduction of the work or establish, jointly with the artist-host, the technical-conceptual alternatives. This La Trampa model draws on traditional graphic creation and integrates discourses of contemporary art: the tradition encouraged by artistic searches and experimentation is put at the service of ideas and proposals of the present. It is a trait that does not make them unique, but it helps to shape their portrait within the network of engraving workshops in Mexico.

Another distinctive feature of La Trampa is that it is an exhibition space, both for work edited by themselves and that produced by other colleagues. The five emissions of the Great Contemporary Hall serve as an example of this line of public opening of the workshop. In this project, dynamics of invitation, selection and assembly were rehearsed; In a playful way, friends and acquaintances were involved to be part of the annual event that served as a museum rehearsal for artists who draw or stamp. Five broadcasts already show the ease and openness with which they trap creative partners in their work environment.

The portrait can be completed with one last feature: more than an engraving and printing workshop, it is an artistic laboratory, a space for collective and multidisciplinary participation, a meeting point for colleagues, friends and others interested in the exchanges that La Trampa does. Contemporary Graphics seeks, encourages and generates.