As well as making prints and providing technical advice to artists at the workshop, he also gives regular courses in Mokuhanga and silkscreen printing techniques. In 2001, in parallel with his own workshop, he mounted an engraving workshop at Josep Niebla’s studio, working with the latter for two years on his prints. From 2015 to 2018, his workshop was complemented by a gallery, Espai U, specializing in the exhibition of prints, visual poetry and artist’s books. Sebi Subirós also gives courses and monographic printmaking sessions at his own workshop and other venues like the EMA in Girona, the Rodriguez Amat Foundation in Garrigoles (Girona), Taller Antonio Saura in Fuendetodos (Zaragoza), the engraving studio of Marbella Museum of Spanish Contemporary Engravings, and other private studios in Barcelona and Valencia. Since 2010, he has specialized in Mokuhanga Japanese woodcut techniques, ranging from the most traditional to the most contemporary of approaches.MOKU HANGA Having studied 4 years at the Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo, I have been teaching Moku Hanga internationally at universities, art institutions and schools In the visual arts world, within the graphic arts, we have techniques such as etching, lithography, woodcut, serigraphy, photography, and now computer graphics. A lot of the work done by Picasso for instance, was done with etching. However, in the Western world little is known about other well developed and rich techniques from Asia, such as Moku hanga, the Japanese wood block printing technique, better known as Ukiyo-E through the works of Hokusai, Hiroshige, Yoshida or Kunisada. Nevertheless, this technique has continued up to this day,mostly in Japan, with contemporary art. The Yoshida Hanga Academy, with a 4-generation family history in the field, offered for many years,to selected artists, the possibility to learn this traditional Japanese art technique.I was lucky to be accepted in their shop and I studied there from 1985 to 1989Years later, in 2005, lithographer Per Anderson and I, co-founded and developed ¨La Ceiba Gráfica¨,with the help of a number of local artists.It is now Mexico's most dynamic graphic arts center with a residency program.There, I begun to ¨adapt the Japanese technique to Mexico¨. Sometimes, when you attempt to do something outside its context, it can be quite difficult. Not finding the right ingredients and materials poses big drawbacks and this is why the moku hanga technique is almost inexistent in other parts of the world. For example, the tortillas one finds in Sweden are not real tortillas, they are made with alternate ingredients. Nevertheless, after a few years researching the matter, I achieved technical success outside Japan and have taught the techniqueto numerous groups in Mexico and the U.S.
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