Alessandro Beber
Born in 1992 in Trento, Alessandro Beber first discovered Origami at age 4 as a pasttime, and began studying and practicing it more seriously since age 10, after meeting a group of local paperfolders and joining the Italian Origami society (CDO) and their conventions. Since then, he explored and studied the techniques and theories of Origami, its genres and its mathematics, and he designed a number of original artworks, both representational and abstract. In recent years he worked mostly on single-sheet origami tessellations, geometric periodic patterns inspired by Islamic and optical arts, publishing a booklet about his techniques in 2013 and a self-published book in 2017. He was invited as a special guest in France and Japan in 2014, in the USA in 2017 and in Poland and UK in 2018, to show, teach and lecture on his works, to teach on the mathematics of Origami in Italy, Germany and Spain. He exhibited his artworks in several international exhibitions and galleries in Italy, the USA, Japan, Spain, Israel and Taiwan, and he worked with some universities as lecturer and consultant for technological applications of origami (in IT, mathematics, robotics). Currently, he works on designing, exhibiting and selling his own artworks, designing origami projects on request, teaching workshops and lecturing about origami techniques and mathematics.
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Alessandra Lamio
Alessandra Lamio first got in touch with origami when she was a child, and she developed a strong interest in it during medical school, when she came across the use of Origami in therapy.
Since 2014 she has been a full-time Origami artist. Her work involves organising exhibitions, running workshops, training teachers, and also creating models for commissions.
She is an active member of the Italian Origami Society (CDO) and has been a member of the committee at the four Italian conventions on origami didactics, addressed to teachers and educators with the aim of promoting and spreading the use of origami as a teaching tool. Together with Alessandro Beber, she conceived and organized the two editions of “Mountain Folding”, a summer residential convention focused on creativity and teamwork. In 2016, she organized and curated the exhibition “Mujeres de Papel”, exploring the role of women in the origami scene. It was first exhibited at the EMOZ origami museum in Zaragoza.
She has exhibited her works in origami art exhibitions in Italy, Spain, Taiwan and USA. Her work explores various genres, with a particular focus on using volume in tessellations, geometric and figurative models.
Most of her geometric works were invented by playing with geometry and patterns. Designed instinctively, they often have internal tension that make them challenging but most of all fun.
She was invited as a special guest at the international origami conventions in France (Aix-les-Bains, May), Poland (Krakow, June) and the United Kingdom (Oxford, September).
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