Summary

Experimenting with shapes - The origin of copying and pasting

This course is technically oriented and shows how to make a casting mold with silicone. It consists of two materials: a silicone mold and a plaster support mold. The mold can be used several times and serves to reproduce an object or a work. Using found objects, molds are made from which wax objects are then created. At the end of the course, a composition will be realized from these objects as a wax assemblage.

The retreat at a glance

The most important facts in a nutshell:

Categories: Modeling, Creative Retreats, Nanas / Objects
Date: 2025-08-10 - 2025-08-15
Language(s): German, English
Level: Beginner
Place: Peccia, Switzerland
Accommodation: not included
Catering: No meals
Services: All necessary tools are provided by us.

Our school offers optimal conditions for learning sculpture in all its forms.

Our courses are taught and supervised by highly qualified instructors.

Accommodation

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!

Catering

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.

sequence

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 works, 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

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)

Via Peccia di Piano 4, 6695 Peccia, Ticino, Switzerland

Cancellation policy

If you cancel up to 28 days before arrival, you will receive a 90% refund of the booking price.
After this, if you cancel up to the day of arrival, you will receive a 100% refund of the booking price.

Cancellation of course/seminar/accommodation: From registration up to 4 weeks before the start of the course/seminar, a cancellation fee of 10% will be charged for the course, seminar and accommodation. 4 weeks or less before the start of the course/seminar, a cancellation fee of 50% will be charged. If you cancel 1 week or more before the start of the course/seminar, the entire fee is due unless you provide a replacement.