Silicone: impression technique and reproduction

Ambience of the houses
If you rent a room in one of our course houses, you will be staying with the other participants in one of the old Ticino houses in the area. The original furnishings are charming and the atmosphere around the open fire is very cozy...
Costs:
Double room for 1 week: 200.- CHF
Single room for 1 week: 300.- CHF
Please bring your own towels, bed linen is provided.
Hotel rooms or a rustico (Ticino vacation home) can also be rented as accommodation, we will be happy to help you arrange this!

Breakfast and lunch will be organized by the participants themselves and can be arranged freely, in the evening there will be a meal together in one of the accommodation houses in Prato Sornico.

Various chefs are happy to cook for our course participants and offer dinner in the Ex-Osteria Mignami during the week (Mon-Fri). Dinner costs CHF 26 including starter/main course/dessert (drinks such as wine, beer etc.) can be purchased from them by the bottle.

Arrival: Sunday meeting point 5 p.m. Working hours: Monday to Friday: 8.30 am to 12 noon, 2 pm to 5 pm.
After that you can work freely. Departure at the end of the course: Saturday until 10 am.

This technically oriented course teaches the basics of molding with silicone. We will create negative molds from silicone and you will learn the basics of mold making.
Using small found objects or your own work, mold divisions will be defined and the molding process will be broken down into further manageable work processes.
You can bring personal objects to the course. These molds will be used for demonstration and as a basis for discussion, even if a negative is not made of every mold. With the two-part silicone casting mold, you will be able to reproduce shapes, objects and individual parts in wax and playfully combine them in new ways. In this subsequent artistic experiment, new objects and spatial assemblages are created from wax parts.

This course incurs material costs of approx. CHF 200, including 5 kg of silicone, plaster and wax.

Arrival is by car or public transport.

Travel by public transport from Locarno SBB railroad station. Take the "Vallemaggia" bus to Bignasco, then change to the Postbus to the "Peccia Paese" stop. Bus FART "Vallemaggia" - Bignasco.

Arrival by car via Gotthard (A2) / San Bernardino (A3/A13) or Chiasso (A2) / exit: "Bellinzona Sud/Locarno" direction Locarno (main road) / Locarno tunnel / exit: "Vallemaggia/ Centovalli / Onsernone" (DO NOT leave Locarno!) continue in the direction of Vallemaggia (from the end of the tunnel another 40 km to Peccia)

Coming from western Switzerland and Valais: Simplon route to Domodossola / Centovalli / Ponte-Brolla, then turn left into Vallemaggia (from here 35 km to Peccia)