GLAB · Correggio · Italy
From image
to matter.
From matter to new possibilities. Technology, digital capture, printing, art and research coexist in one laboratory.
Discover GLAB ↓Our approach
We begin with the physical world. We capture it, understand it and transform it back into matter. This is where technology, printing, art and research intersect.
Art Clones
↗ 02GLAB Anamorphia
↗ 03Material & Surface Scanning
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The new GLAB art collectionANAMORPHIA
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More than a copy
Art Clones
From a distance it is an image. Up close it is matter.
An artwork is colour, but also brushstrokes, depth, craquelure, irregularities and traces of time. We capture and process this information to restore both its chromatic and material character.
Discover the process →Selected projects
From scanning to space.
MART · Rovereto
Botticelli’s Venus
Private commission · Interior
Art enters the space
MATERIAL & SURFACE SCANNING
We do not scan the object. We scan what it is made of.
After scanning, METIS software generates the maps required to digitally recreate the appearance and behaviour of the surface: colour, relief, gloss, transparency and reflections.
Material scanning →- Starting pointReal sample
- CaptureColour and surface
- ProcessingPBR maps
- ResultDigital material
A cross-disciplinary production capability
Small and large format, printing on rigid and flexible media, customisation and installations. Printing is the production department that has accompanied GLAB from the beginning and makes many laboratory projects possible.
Explore the print department →Since 2007, in Correggio
We started with fifty square metres and one printer.
Today, 240 square metres have once again become too small. Between those two points lie the work, the choices, the technologies adopted and every request that made us ask what else might be possible.
The GLAB story →