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Later I improved my knowledge also in Spain, \u00a0in Italy with a great master printer Prof. Armando Martini and my colleague, famous promotor and printmaker Vladimiro Elivieri.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I owe my greatest learning and knowledge acquisition also to my Japanese mentors, leading masters of Japanese mokuhanga printmaking,\u00a0 Prof. Yuki Rei, Prof. Fumio Kitaoka and lithographer Prof. Harumi Sonoyama. They opened\u00a0 the door to the richness of Japanese culture and artistic techniques : Japanese woodcut-mokuhanga, Sumi \u00a0and other techniques. In combining Western and Eastern art knowledge, I developed my own creative art language. 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