It is above all an incendiary guide "of" how is the Art that I practice ... Construction and welcoming work. It definitely promulgates the pollination of the "language" of printmaking for contemporary times. Unlimited, hybrid and transformative. Maria Bonomi (b. 1935, Italy of Brazilian mother, lived in Brazil since 1945). Maria Bonomi is perhaps the only case of an artist who lived in the same milieu and saw at firsthand many developments of the artistic avant-gardes from the end of the 1950s onward, and yet not did join any of them not the abstractions, not the artificial pop trends, nor the new realisms. She remained faithful to both xilogravura [wood engraving] and xilografia [wood printing], terms she coined herself to denote unfoldings of her attitude at the moment of engraving the wood, later employed in other materials: synthetics, metals, clay, etc.ʺ.