About

GATE44 is a visual culture production center, print publisher and artist residency in Milan, Italy.

OUR MISSION

We started off as artists, printmakers and creatives brought together by a passion for paper, art, design and print. However, in the context of a world where images replace experience and mediate our social reality, we have gradually come to the conclusion that our central concern lies in understanding how visual experiences construct, reflect, and circulate meaning, identity, and so forth.

THE PRINT STUDIO

Today, more than ever, we see printmaking and the print studio as critical spaces for cultural resistance for reclaiming agency, slowing down perception, reactivating critical engagement with the visual and bridge the divide between artistic practice, academic research, media theory, and technological experimentation. We resist and fight the spectacle’s logic through visual cultural practices.

THE PRINT GALLERY

If the workshop is the place where processes are activated and culture is produced, then the gallery is the site where that culture is proposed, presented, and sold, because, of course, in the age of capitalism, value can only be assessed and affirmed in the marketplace.

STAY GREEN

At Gate 44 we provide a safe and healthy environment. We aim to be as green and non-toxic as possible without compromising quality. For etching, we substitute solvents with VCA (vegetable cleaning agents) and nitric acid is strictly forbidden. We prefer zinc and copper sulfate to copper and ferric chloride and we incorporate more modern materials and techniques such as photopolymers and light- and water-based etching processes. For screen-printing we use high quality water-based inks and commercial soaps and degreasers. Water and trash are properly disposed of and recycled.

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Meet the Team

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Glen Lasio

Founder & Creative Director

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Gianluca Craca

Master Printer

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Erica Monzali

Art Director

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Sara Allasia

Printmaker