Exercises on Ezra is an artist’s book by Enzo Cucchi conceived around a series of portraits of Ezra Pound made by the artist, and around the diptych senza titolo (Pound), an anti-memoir work on the poet which is the main piece of the exhibition Antifragile at Colli Independent Art Gallery, Rome. The book is a collection of drawings, fragments, and annotations around Pound’s portraits, also entering into relation with the text Il Grano, written by Giuseppe Cucchi and Brunella Antomarini. The text unfolds fragmentarily, reconstituting itself at the end of the volume offering the possibility of an organic reading full of references to the individual pages, in a continuous relationship with the visual elements.

Ubi Consistam is a project by Laura Agnusdei composed of five acousmatic pieces resulting from the auditory exploration of five locations in Bologna. Each piece is devised to be listened to with headphones in the place where its sound material has been recorded. This idea was born in the winter of 2020, when due to the closure of music venues, as musicians we were forced to reimagine ourselves in new contexts, enacting new listening dynamics. I decided then to explore Bologna, my city, searching for special sound landscapes and / or particular architectures and to enact them using sometimes my saxophone and sometimes inviting other musicians to take part in my experiment: Stefano Pilia on the double bass, Enrico Malatesta on percussions, Flavio Zanuttini on the trumpet and Giacomo Bertocchi on the clarinet.

La mostra Ciak Collecting – Collezionismo Italiano Attivo, a cura di Irene Sofia Comi, è il miglior esempio di come Veronafiere attraverso ArtVerona interpreti la valorizzazione del sistema culturale. L’iniziativa punta i riflettori sul significato e il valore della figura del collezionsita e si propone di esplorare i più recenti fenomeni che caratterizzano questo ruolo nella scena artistica contemporanea. Ciak Collecting si inserisce in un più ampio lavoro di indagine sul mondo del collezionismo condotto da ArtVerona. Il progetto espositivo Ciak Collecting e la pubblicazione Collezionismo Italiano Attivo portano esempi virtuosi e positivi di come oggi sia possibile creare una narrazione nuova tra gli artisti, le gallerie e i collezionisti. Testi di: Maurizio Danese (presidente Veronafiere), Stefano Raimondi (direttore ArtVerona), Irene Sofia Comi (curatrice), Cristina Masturzo (storica e critica d’arte). Schede di indagine: Seven Gravity Collection, GRID by Eddy Merckx Curating, Fondazione Coppola, Associazione Barriera, DucatoPrize, Cascina IDEA by Nicoletta Rusconi Art Projects, Gerry Bonetti, Viaindustriae.

The theme of the fourth issue of Bolletti/no is DEPARTURES. It invites readers to trace their own routes. Through stories of different journeys and departures (Ali who leaves from Afghanistan, the Lathrea Clandestina that travels with the poplar, the swallow who returns to Franco every year…) Bolleltti/no.4 creates an interweaving of lines that seem to be waiting not to be interrupted to set in a collective journey.

Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.

La discoteca is a project by Jacopo Miliani comprising of a movie, a neon-light sculpture and a publication. Through an aesthetic marked by numerous cultural references and surreal visions, the artist proposes an open narrative in constant dialogue with the viewer on topics such as the construction of identity, the sphere of sexuality, queerness, gender fluidity and the relationship between personal choices and those imposed by society.  The aim of the publishing project is to share a collection of fragments that make up the personal research conducted by Jacopo Miliani in parallel with the shooting of the film. The book is split into various sections, aiming to highlight how discos can be interpreted as contexts of contamination, transformationism, love relationships as well as gestures with strong political and social potential, capable of providing an interpretation of the present and a perspective on the future. Contributions by Jacopo Miliani (artist); Elisa Del Prete (curator of NOS); Mariuccia Casadio, (Art Consultant for Vogue Italia and expert in issues concerning culture and style); Luca Locati Luciani (essayist), and an original conversation with Eva Robin’s. La discoteca is the winning project of the eighth edition of Italian Council, the programme to promote contemporary Italian art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC). Coordinated and produced by the cultural association Nosadella.due with the curation of Elisa Del Prete and Silvia Litardi of the curatorial partnership NOS Visual Arts Production, the project originates in collaboration with APS Arcigay Il Cassero / Gender Bender Festival; Bottega Bologna; If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Revolution; Run by a group / Openspace, and will become part of the museum collection of the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato.

A Week from Monday is a publication with a CD that gathers together the sonic and visual results of the residency – with the same title – organized by Viaindustriae and Holydays in Scopoli (Italy, PG) in September 2020. It is a diary of the seven days spent with visual artists Giacomo Infantino and Francesca Ruberto and musicians Laura Agnusdei, Matteo Pennesi, Luca Sguera between sound investigation, visual research, and exploration of the landscape. The seven days of the residency are mirrored in the seven tracks on the CD, as well as the seven ‘chapters’ of the diary. But this cadence of seven should not be taken too literally; indeed the contents are composed of texts fragments which should serve to evoke rather than describe, combined with photos, scans from documentation produced during the residency (technical notes, shopping lists, menus) in a collage intended to suggest and create connections not evident at first glance.

Ab ovo is the trace of a research on decorative patterns that artist Adelaide Cioni have been conducting for over a year. The images are scans of large drawings on cotton gauze which she made during a residency at the Mahler & Lewitt studios in Spoleto, and they refer to some patterns found on prehistoric vases. These excerpts of gauze, here reconfigured as fragments, hint at the potential infinity which is the implicit dimension of every decorative pattern. With the support of Mahler & Lewitt studios, Spoleto and P420, Bologna. 

Helicotrema is a non-profit festival curated by Blauer Hase and Giulia Morucchio. Started in 2012, it presents a program of recorded audio pieces, with the aim of investigating the possibilities of an environment and a form of collective listening, as happened in the first decades of radio broadcasting. The festival is structured in a series of listening sessions, in which the audience is invited to immerse themselves in listening to compositions by international authors. Over the years the festival has been hosted in very different places, always investigating how audio works, space and audience can merge together. The book is designed as a retrospective manual/manifesto, an extended reading of playing with sound, narratives, authors, spaces, public, and listening dramaturgy. Helicotrema commissioned Marcos Lutyens a new sound work to be featured in a Flexi disc as part of the publication.

Between September and October 2019, the artist Irene Coppola in collaboration with the architect Vito Priolo conducted an intense period of research in the village of Armila, in Panama’s Guna Yala indigenous community. A variety of languages were used, ranging from writing to drawing, sculpture, photography and video. This publication features authorial materials about the project, whose local dimension is closely connected to global issues and urgencies, expolred in the essays by three contributors active in the field of contemporary art. The project is supported by the Italian Council (6th Edition, 2019), program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

The subject of the third issue of Bolletti/no is Landscape. In the third issue you can find instructions for a workshop with gypsum. Starting from the discovery of gypsum in nature, we get to drawing a map of an imaginary landscape.

Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.

La Lince D’Ombra è un racconto di ispirazione mitologica e cavalleresca, con elementi contemporanei e surreali, tipici dei racconti di Vallo di Nera, le cosiddette villanate. Una favola che si ancora alle credenze e alle passioni del territorio, le sue conformazioni geologiche e religiose. Libro d’artista di Francesco Cavaliere, stampato in 100 copie, realizzato in occasione della seconda edizione di Una Boccata d’Arte, curato da Threes productions. Una Boccata d’Arta è un progetto promosso da Fondazione Elpis, in collaborazione con Galleria Continua e con la partecipazione di Threes Productions.

I am Gonzo is a book on Italian erotic-porn comics. Gonzo is the immersive and amateur technique chosen by the authors to collect, analyze and look at erotic-porn comics, a poor and modest form of publication, with sensual papery aesthetcis and a high rate of collectability. Gonzo (dupe) is also a person, the amateur porn addict, usually male (porno-man, homo heroticus), who collects and consumes these enjoyable objects with an animal-like, almost wild atittude. This book attempts to describe a fragmented panorama; it is not about the estabilshed art comics, but about the ‘gonzo’ comics of the reader-lover, who owns and consumes the object and its ‘covetous authorship’, and keeps the issues hidden among more scholarly books.
The book brings together a visual selection of comics (published between the 1960s and the 2000s) essays, the exhibition displays that contributed to the development of the research over the course of three years, and a final list of all the comics collected for the research.

This book is the catalog of the exhibition On the Principle of Contradiction curated by Elena Volpato at GAM Torino. “It is neither a theme nor a language that unites the five artists in this exhibition. Rather, it is the presence of a space of possibility within their works, made, almost always, by at least two elements, by two or more natures, by two or more images that cannot be fully reconciled with one another and are bound together through ambiguity which at times becomes an explicit relationship of contradiction. The emotional strength of their work, despite the considerable differences in their practice, seems to derive from the vibration of that space created between the elements which cannot fully overlap, or coincide in a univocal affirmation, but which keep sliding one upon the other and demanding attention one despite the other.”

Apeninnes Map Linea 1201, an artistic project on the Italian Apennines decised by Angelo Bellobono and developed together with the curators Elisa Del Prete and Silvia Litardi. Setting out from Rome, the artist’s operative base, Angelo Bellobono undertook an itinerant programme of residencies which crossed the Apennines in four stages in order to investigate and narrate the highlands of Italy through art, in dialogue with other artists, experts and mountain lovers. The number ‘1201’ used in the title of the project represents the length of the mountain ridge in kilometres, from the southern end at the Calabrian Aspromonte, right up to Monte Maggiorasca in Liguria. Linea 1201 began in the moment of the reopening after the first lockdown due to the Covid-19 health emergency in spring 2020 with a view ro capitalising on a number of reflections on themes which had emerged, such as isolation and borders, the relationship with the landscape and the environment, but also with regard to the changes that our approach has undergone towards walking and our relationships, and last but not least, the mountain territory and the specific ways it may be frequented.
Part of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the restoration of one of the precious cartographic documents found in the Italian Geographical Society collection in Rome.

The subject of the second issue of Bolletti/no is gems. Multi-colored paper, green ink, spring awakening and a recipe to create a sugar sculpture!

Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.

Libro d’artista dove si alterna l’uso di fotografia e disegno. “L’idea è appunto quella di una ricerca di avvicinamento al senso profondo che si svela nella pratica del disegno e della fotografia, nel suo rapporto con l’inconscio, diciamo con la ricerca di sé e del Sé. Lacchini non usa solo il disegno e la fotografia, usa anche molti altri media, la scultur ae la musica all’occasione, ma il disegno e la fotografia sono la parte di questa ricerca più vicina al sé. Lacchini li pratica in senso diaristico proprio per mettere in gioco tale vicinanza: dentro di essi ci sono le tracce della sua vita, di nuovo non in senso documentario ma in quello della ripresa e rielaborazione.” Elio Grazioli

What is an artist’s book made of a series of affirmations and negations that incessantly alternate in a repetitive and estranged rhythm. The book questions the nature of books as a physical object, as a vehicle of communication between who writes and who reads, as an instrument for investigating the mechanisms of thought and reality. What is the ghost which is left when the idea of truth itself comes into question. 

Abitata pietra è il progetto editoriale di Antonio Cammareri, Stefania D’Amato e Luogo Comune nell’ambito della residenza itinerante Un atlante del paesaggio rupestre svoltasi tra Matera, Montescaglioso e Mottola. Il libro è frutto di un’intensa ricerca visuale e di sperimentazione narrativa realizzata collettivamente dagli artisti e che ospita contributi
fotografici di cinque autori; una riflessione sul paesaggio raccontata attraverso le immagini. Un insieme di stratificazioni visive e di senso sull’abitare, sul rupestre e sulle comunità.

La mostra Domani Qui Oggi è la tappa più significativa del percorso inaugurato dal Premio AccadeMibact, bandito nel 2019 dalla Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del MiBACT. Si tratta di un premio per la valorizzazione delle giovani artiste e dei giovani artisti provenienti dal panorama delle Accademie di Belle Arti italiane. La mostra, curata da Ilaria Gianni e allestita nella Sala Fontana e negli spazi adiacenti di Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma, è il principale evento collaterale della Quadriennale d’arte 2020. Le artiste e gli artisti in mostra sono: Francesco Alberico, Alessandro Fogo, Roberta Folliero, Alessia Lastella, Lorenzo Lunghi, Jacopo Martinotti, Giulia Poppi, Luisa Turuani, Alice Visentin, Marco Vitale. Il libro raccoglie anche il dialogo tra i dieci giovani artisti italiani selezionati e dieci giovani curatrici e curatori.

Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.

Agenzia Dancing Days involves elderly people dancing to electronic music choreography. The dances are collective. The itinerant project took place in discos, dance floors, ballrooms, city squares and festivals. The record collects the sound recordings of rehearsals and performances.

Yes Yes Yes Revolutionary Press in Italy indaga la scena italiana della stampa rivoluzionaria di “organi” editoriali in foglio, giornale, rivista, ciclostilato, bollettino, fascicolo, alcuni quotidiani altri periodici, spesso irregolari, altri aperiodici di cui molti numeri unici in reiterata attesa di autorizzazione… La febbrile attività tipografica si lega alla serrata politico-ideologica, antagonista e contro-culturale di un periodo di lotta, conquista di spazi civili, aree di libertà e di creatività sociale. In questo volume si censiscono e selezionano criticamente più di 600 stampati usciti tra il 1966 e il 1977. Questa ricerca è la continuazione naturale della corposa pubblicazione, uscita nel 2014 ed edita dagli stessi editori: Yes Yes Yes, Alternative press, 66-77 from Provo to Punk, curata da Emanuele De Donno ed Amedeo Martegani. Quel primo volume esaminava il ruolo della stampa alternativa, underground e controculturale europea ed americana in un periodo fiorente: 1966-1977; questa nuova edizione si concentra sulla scena italiana, la cui ampia strategia di “connivenze” e la frastagliata geografia regionale hanno posto la necessità, per sezionare tematicamente il percorso, di dare una visione allargata dei mezzi di stampa alternativa, non solo underground, indipendenti e contro-culturali, ma anche della contro-informazione, della editoria “schierata” ultra-radicale politica quindi ideologica. Il nucleo consistente di testate censite nella prolifica rete italiana che si allarga anche alle province è stata reperita grazie ai contributi di archivi messi in rete, collezionisti, cultori, editori e attivisti da tutta Italia che costituiscono una geografia sommersa dell’editoria contro-culturale italiana ma anche di un collezionismo resistente e ragionato. Questi mezzi stampa documentano una ricerca di cultura radicale, di autori e co-autori, promotori/artisti di cultura libera ed alternativa, distribuita in formati di confine e sperimentali.

The book shows the Lombard landscape through the gaze of the saints in votive niches, with a selection of about 1000 images collected on the occasion of the photography project Between heaven and earth by artist Claudio Beorchia for the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Cinisello Balsamo. The publication takes inspiration from classic editions such as the missal, Italian Touring Club guide, the dictionary, collecting in 700 pages thousands of images including full-color printed photographs and black and white miniatures, as well as a general index that shows the data of the 2911 niches photographed. The first section of the book collects more than 200 photographs and shows what the saints see from their positions in a subjective way, thanks to the shape of the image traced exactly on the shape of the niche from which the figure is protruding towards the surrounding environment. A selection of about 800 black and white miniatures, which directly relate the images of the saints and their gaze, is ordered through ten taxonomies. Texts by: Giovanna Calvenzi, Claudio Beorchia, Matteo Balduzzi, Don Umberto Bordoni, Paolo Bossi.

Alla ricerca del tempo perso is the firth Imagonirmia Notebook. It is a book-game which guides the reader through Astrusis’ fantastic world. Astrusis is an artisan-researcher from Melandra Sud who, in her short but intense career, reached incredible goals as well as incredible failures. Grazie (perdere tempo) is a journey through time and space. It is a journey through a book. It is an urban tour. It is a stretching of the senses and of the mind which only occasionally encounters directions to indicate a landing place, which can be continuously reached and lost again. It is – above all – an invitation to waste our time and to walk in circles.