UFF Screen Printing

Mauro Dalla Costa is a self-taught artist who ventured into screen printing in 2004, after his interest in music led him to form a band for which he wanted to print t-shirts. Thus, Mauro founded his own clothing brand, UFF Serigrafia, in Santa Fe, Argentina. Over the years the studio has gained recognition printing for companies, clothing brands and workwear for the city’s government. His innovative approach has also led Mauro to explore the results of several inks on a variety of surfaces including wood, fabric, glass and paper, and offer screen printing courses from the studio.

Textile printing was always the main income for the studio, however, Mauro also enjoys working with paper to create his own artworks inspired by nature, geometric shapes, and the use of the colours and halftones. “I am driven by looking deeper into the process of screen printing itself, as it offers new challenges to create with” says the printmaker. “I like combining photography, drawing, and photographs I have taken, alongside geometrical shapes in my pieces. Inspiration comes to me when I play music or I am in nature, then I sit and start creating shapes and thinking in layers and colours as I go. However, I am extremely meticulous and I need the design to work perfectly before I start printing.”

While living in Santa Fe Mauro won prizes for his artwork, which brought more collaborative projects his way with artists from all over the world. After 12 years of printing in his home country, he moved to Vancouver Island, Canada, in 2017 under a working contract for a textile screen printing company (Top Drawer Graphics inc.) Here he is the operator of an 8 by 8 textile printing press, working mostly on contract jobs with plastisol and water based discharge inks. Having now mastered the technique, Mauro loves to play around with the industrial and the artisan side of screen printing. He states; “I work a full time job printing, then I go home and keep printing in my home studio for myself and my friends, I can’t stop printing”.

Through participating in markets on the Island, he has had the opportunity to meet an amazing community of artists and graphic designers; great people to print and engage in collaborative jobs and exhibitions. Mauro hopes to soon open a studio and gallery dedicated to screen printing; teaching the technique by offering a more noble and environmentally friendly process, and a place to connect and share knowledge and experiences with artists and friends.

www.uffscreenprinting.com
@uffserigrafia

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