Conversations with Engraver Nunik Sauret at Cuale Cultural Center
 At the Cuale Cultural Center, a conversation with engraver Nunik Sauret took place last Tuesday, September 1. Nunik is one of the top engravers in Mexico today. She discussed her work in a retrospective vision.
This conversation marked the end of a brief stay of Nunik Sauret in the Engraving Workshop La Raya, the same she founded ten years ago. The presence of artists like Nunik Sauret foments the workshop’s prestige, and nurtures those workshop members who were given the opportunity to learn from her by working together with her.
Nunik asked artist Fernando Sánchez, a member of the Collective La Malagua to act as speaker in a tour of the different aspects of artistic creation through her career.
The conversation was illustrated with slide shows, which gave the audience a visual reference of the concepts being discussed by the artist, and at times, the artist herself used the slides as the basis for her comments.
Nunik started out by talking about her times at the La Esmeralda fine arts school, and how her love of engraving emerged from the time she passed by a shop where etchings were being printed, a shop where students were not allowed.
 Engraving, seen through the eyes of Nunik Sauret, is a fascinating world. The audience listened to her in delight as she talked about the numerous techniques, mental processes involved, the challenges and alternatives to each on them, and how different techniques have accompanied her purpose as artist, corresponding to her expressive needs.
It is very interesting to learn how an engraving workshop she took under Japanese artists in Guanajuato has become a milestone in the artist work’s evolution. Her most recent work shows a great influence of the Japanese graphic, both in technique and sensitivity.
After the conversation, where the artist talked about her work in different techniques and supports, there was a practical demonstration of a wood engraving technique, carried out by the Nunik and Ireri Topete.
In the production workshop that ended the same Tuesday, Nunik Sauret worked with Ireri Topete and Fernando Sánchez, among other Cuale artists.
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