Introduction

Sator Print opened in Siena in 1999 as a shop for restorations and bookbinding art. In time, it developed into a multidiscipline atelier where different kinds of art are applied to produce high quality printing and restorative work. The essence of the art produced is the quality of the paper and the style of the calligraphy to bring out the most beauty of the objects.

In the Sator Print books, incisions, manuscripts and documents of paper from every epoch are reproduced or restored. Artistic bookbinding is performed with the most modern and creative techniques using high quality materials. Miniatures, Block letters. Copies of pages from the most precious renaissance writings are reeproduced with the antique techniques of amanuensis

The calligraphy is used as an art, to provide the continuity, linking the past with modern times.

curriculum

Piergiorgio Bertolozzi Caredio, known as Even in art circles, was born in Turin in 1958, received education in the arts in the School of Arts of Duccio Di Buoninsegna in Siena. From 1993 he started a collaboration with Rueven Benaya- a well known Italian miniaturist. Together they initiated several projects like the “Birkhat ha mazhon” limited edition book, and an illuminated “Haggadah shel pesach” and several Ketubot. Exhibitions of their works were staged in several cities, including Berlin, Venice, Pitigliano, Siena and Florence.

The collaboration with Rueven Benaya prompted a change in the ocus of Caredio’s work toward book-art, traditional bookbinding, calligraphy and paper restauration. After participating in a number of workshops in Florence and Rome Caredio, started his own shop/art gallery in Siena in 1999 called SATOR PRINT.

In addition to the arts Caredio has been involved in a variety of activities, always with a a sense of passion and striving for high quality. He frequented a number of laboratory ateliers and art galleries. drawing on the experience of other artists while maintaining his own unique personal style.