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Arthur Page

SEMPRE GIÙ ALLE MONTAGNE

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Text by Arthur “Ettore” Page,
Curated by Giorgio Barnocchi, photos by Alice Mazzarella.


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208 pp.
21×15 cm
ita.

2018
ISBN 978-88-97753-44-5

This book is a translation raisonné of Una Bella Passeggiata or a walk in wartime Italy, already published in 1995 in both English and Italian language. The author is an English soldier, Arthur “Ettore” Page who, during the Second World War, while trying escaping from the Germans and the fascists, finds himself into a journey across Italy and the Apennines. While walking, advised by the natives to andare sempre giù alle montagne (always go down to the mountains), he mentally takes note of all the stages of his bella passeggiata (nice walk) that will later become the chapters of his book, a posthumous war diary and a way to thank the villagers who had helped him and hid him.

Vv. Aa.

TERRENO

€ 18

Vv. Aa.

TERRENO. Traces of the Accessible Everyday

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Edited by Lisa Andreani
Texts by Lisa Andreani, Arjun Appadurai, Gianfranco Baruchello e Henry Martin, David Blamey, Luciano Caruso, Enrico Crispolti, Clémentine Deliss, Georges Didi-Huberman, Tim Ingold, Francesco Stocchi, Andrea Viliani.

Published in the occasion of the exhibition
TERRENO. Traces of the Accessible Everyday
L’Aquila, MAXXI L’Aquila
7 December 2024 - 4 May 2025 

208 pp.
17 x 24 cm
Color and bw printing
ita/eng

2024
ISBN 979-12-81790-24-7

TERRENO. Tracce del disponibile quotidiano is a multidisciplinary exhibition that relates materiality and memory, bringing together cultural traditions, historical documents and everyday artistic practices, generating new collective imaginaries. The volume brings together a range of images, essays and reprints, offering a unique dialogue between artistic, scientific, and social disciplines. Inspired by Gianni Celati “accessible everyday”, the exhibition takes the visitor on a journey dedicated to the scenes, landscapes, and gestures from the everyday world that often go unnoticed and are rediscovered, grasping their value and revealing new and possible meanings. The rooms of the museum are filled with works of art from the MAXXI Collections, artefacts and photographic documents from the Museum of Civilisations in Rome, editorial materials, design and architectural projects, and a new sound production. This is how fluid and changeable stories and tales are born, joining ordinariness and tradition, historical documentation and invention, in a strong bond with the territory and its artistic and creative community. With: Arjun Appadurai, Franco Assetto, Amedeo Aureli, Yto Barrada, Gianfranco Baruchello and Henry Martin, David Blamey, Diego Carpitella, Luciano Caruso and Giuliano Longone, Cavart, Giorgio Ceretti, Pietro Derossi e Riccardo Rosso, Continuum, Mario Cresci, Enrico Crispolti, Clémentine Deliss, Georges Didi-Huberman, Claudia Durastanti, Francesco De Melis, Formafantasma, Francesco Garnier Valletti, Luigi Ghirri, Ezio Gribaudo, Illustrazione Abruzzese, Tim Ingold, Enzo Mari, Ana Mendieta, Bruno Munari, Ramona Ponzini, Quarto di Santa Giusta Centro Multimediale, Moira Ricci, Annabella Rossi, Bernard Rudofsky, Marco Schiavone, Shimabuku, Alessandra Spranzi, Susan Sontag, Superstudio, Luca Trevisani, Nico Vascellari, Andrea Viliani, Luca Vitone and all the creators of artefacts belonging to the Collections of Popular Arts and Traditions of the Museum of Civilisations. 

Paola Anziché

TESSUTO COMUNE

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Paola Anziché

COMMON THREADS

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32 pp.
19 x 28 cm
colour and bw printing
ita/eng

2024
ISBN 979-12-81790-12-4

Human life on Earth depends on biodiversity and its health. However, this pre-cious variety of life forms has been endangered for too long and is disappearing at an alarming rate. This awareness has gradually prompted me to reconsid. er the use of materials in my artistic practice, opting for natural, plant-based materials. This publication reflects on materiality, awareness of gesture and a sense of care in my artistic pratice. Through an exploration of the organic, of the intelligence contained in craftsmanship, I propose a collaborative and conscious art practice that seeks to connect with the natural world in a respectful and sustainable manner. Inside this publication there are the contributions by Cecilia Canziani, Ana Gonçalves Magalhães and Paola Anziché.

Francesco Cavaliere, Dick El Demasi…

RING!

€ 35

Francesco Cavaliere, Dick El Demasiado

RING!

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A project by Viaindustriae and Holydays in collaboration with Rous Records
Limited edition 150 copies
Photo credits: Fotostudio Futura, Foligno
Supported by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno

Ring! is an artist album by Francesco Cavaliere and Dick El Demasiado created during A Week From Monday 2023, an artistic residency organized in Umbria by Viaindustriae Publishing and Holydays Festival. The residency involves a week-long research and production phase, in which the artists divide their time between Foligno's industrial zone and the mountain village of Scopoli with the intent of exploring possible points of contact between visual and sonic artistic languages. Ring! is the result of an immersive listening experience, involving the manipulation of field recordings taken during a historically inspired jousting tournament. The artists shared the experience of listening and recording, while further manipulation and production of the tracks was carried out individually.

Francesco Cavaliere opens Il fuso del cavallo infilato nell'anello (20' 5") with a vocal reinterpretation of the Bando di Giostra—a text traditionally read aloud to announce the horse race, typically recited into a microphone by a designated actor on the day of the event, in the complete silence of a crowded stadium. He then focuses on the stark solemnity of the race itself, during which a certain kind of restless silence takes center stage, as the ear tunes in to the essential sounds of the stadium: the horse's gallop, the lances striking or missing the rings. This creates a long sequence of speaking silenceswhere, from time to time, the chatter of the crowd suddenly breaks through.

In Never Be The Saddle (15' 50"), Dick El Demasiado works with editing, repetition, layering, and delay as subtle yet decisive gestures, creating a vaguely unsettling and out-of-the-ordinary sound experience. His interventions are so discreet that one may not immediately notice them—or possibly never notice them at all. Here, the main elements are saturated sounds, such as the amplified voice of the race announcer, the cheers, drums, and trumpets, which are occasionally interrupted by the same speaking silence that we hear in Cavaliere's piece, a defining sonic element of the experience.

Kolxoz Collective

QUASI-BOOK

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Kolxoz Collective

Quasi-Book. On Poetry, Bureaucracy and Alibism

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Co-published with Mahler & LeWitt Studios
Edited by Alice Mazzarella, Guy Robertson

126 pp.
12 x 20 cm
eng

2024
ISBN 979-12-81790-10-0

Quasi-Book is an artist's book by Kolxoz Collective, the last part of the residency project of the same title curated by Mahler & LeWitt Studios and Viaindustriae in 2021. The residency took place in the spaces of Sol LeWitt's studio in Spoleto and was intended as a platform for the dissemination and contextualisation of artistic publishing practices. After iterating as an open studio, a temporary bookshop, a platform for sharing and discussing book-making practices, and a space for convivial moments, the Quasi-Book project has now become an ‘actual’ quasi-book. Its chapters are quasi-chapters, collecting materials according to the predominant characteristics and techniques employed by Kolxoz Collective. For example, their promotion of a communal ‘inter-language’ as a way to facilitate new ways of communication and collective identification (Glossary); the use of the postal service to deliver materials, artworks and drawings to collaborators (Post Bridge); the thermal printing technique used by Kolxoz as a transportable publishing desk (Other Books); and drawing-statements which merge short texts and visual information (Diagrams). These materials are accompanied by an extract from a conversation – posited as a ‘live dictionary’ – between Kolxoz Collective, Viaindustriae, and the Mahler & LeWitt Studios.

Caretto/Spagna

Bright Ecologies. Caretto/Spagna: Experiences, Forms, Materials

€ 30

Caretto/Spagna

Bright Ecologies. Caretto/Spagna: Experiences, Forms, Materials

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€ 30 / € 24

Co-published with les presses du réel
Edite by Giorgina Bertolino, Francesca Comisso, Cecilia Guida, Alessandra Pioselli
Texts by Alice Benassia, Giorgina Bertolino, Francesca Comisso, Giusi Diana, Cecilia Guida, Tim Ingold, Alba L’Astorina, Marie Anne Lanavère, Alessandra Pioselli, Riccardo Venturi
Supported by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura, nell’ambito del programma Italian Council (dodicesima edizione, 2023)

368 pp.
20,5 × 28 cm
ita/en

2024
ISBN 979-12-81790-02-5

Caretto/Spagna are precursors of ecologically engaged artistic practices. They see art as a radical experience of openness, undisciplinated research and involvement with the “things” of the world: the earth, seeds, people, stones, the museum, the river, the quarry, the tree, micro-organisms. Bright Ecologies traces and documents twenty years of their work, structured in research involving care, the transformation of matter, and experiments with form, through practices based on encounter, process, parcticipation and co-authorship.

Chiara Trivelli

Contenuto Rimosso. Il fuoco nel Quadrato

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Chiara Trivelli

Contenuto Rimosso. Il fuoco nel quadrato

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Promoted by Comitato 30 luglio
Supported by Comune di Lorenzago di Cadore, Magnifica Comunità di Cadore, Regione Veneto
Supported by Consorzio dei Comuni del Bacino Imbrifero Montano del Piave appartenenti alla Provincia di Belluno
176 pp.
16×23 cm
ita

2023
ISBN 978-88-97753-94-0

Contenuto Rimosso is an "experiment in psychoanalysis applied to the environment." A work on collective memory, it addresses the issue of depopulation of mountain areas, experimenting with a community art where community forms of life that have a centuries-old tradition survive, in alpine communities. In particular, Contenuto Rimosso ved refers to the paradoxical nature of a process of reconstruction that was at the same time a process of collective removal, the Rifabbrico in Cadore. On the evening of July 30, 1855, a fire destroyed the historic center of Lorenzago. The settlement was rebuilt, giving rise to Quadrato, a neighborhood that is now mostly uninhabited. Since 2012, the Contenuto Rimosso project has included the discontinuation of public lighting along the streets of the neighborhood and an installation of fires, flashlights and candles on the anniversary of the fire. Over the years, the action has become a new tradition, the village's main celebration. Contenuto Rimosso is not a "commemorative" event proper, because it does not celebrate or perpetuate the memory of anything. The reactualization of the memory of the fire is thought of as a trigger for a "counter-image" to emerge, for the local community to reclaim its past by using public space as a place for the elaboration of a self-image inverse to the stereotypical one. By ritualizing a recurrence and building a narrative around it, Contenuto Rimosso contributes.

Virginia di Lazzaro, giulia filippi

Bolletti/no 12

€ 10

Virginia di Lazzaro, giulia filippi

Bolletti/no 12

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24 pp.
stampa a un colore (grigio)
14,8 x 21 cm

2023

The theme of the twelfth issue of Bolletti/no is… TIDE! Aldo can’t find the stone he was playing with…. The tide covered it up! This issue of Bolletti/no takes us on a discovery of what the water hides and shows when the sea level increases and decreases… Let’s create a small flip book together to observe this fascinating fenomenon.

Bolletti/no 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 Bolletti/no 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.

Luca Boffi (Alberonero)

CARO CAMPO

€ 30

Luca Boffi (Alberonero)

Caro Campo. Workbook

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368 pp.
13,5 × 24 cm
ita/eng

2023
ISBN 978-88-97753-97-1

The editorial project Caro Campo. Workbook stems from the artistic project Campo: a human, artistic and environmental experience lived by Alberonero from 2019 to 2021 in Campogalliano (near Modena, Italy), in symbiosis with a field of 290 poplars until they were cut down. During “Campo” project, daily immersed in the field of poplars, Alberonero has accompanied its natural changes by transforming the field’s portions through the creation of 20 temporary artworks. The book evokes the portable proportions of the “field notebooks”, the resistant books capable of listing the “trans-actions”, the movements meant both as a “poetic” experience and as a work diary.
“Caro Campo. Workbook” is produced by STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO, published by Viaindustriae and supported by the Italian Council (11th edition, 2022), the program aimed at supporting Italian contemporary art in the world promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity within the Italian Ministry of Culture. Cultural Partners: Arte Sella – The Contemporary Mountain, Borgo Valsugana (TN), Italy; Associação Anda&Fala, Azores Island, Portugal; Domaine de Boisbuchet, Lessac, France; CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN ARTE Y ENTORNO, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain; University of Balamand, Tripoli, Lebanon; Taller Chullima, La Habana, Cuba.

Mattia Pajè

Pila Thinkerwiller

€ 10

Mattia Pajè

Pila Thinkerwiller

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20 pp.
21 x 29,7 cm
ita

2023

Pila Thinkerwiller is a work composed of two metal plates, one copper and one zinc, placed at the north and south ends of the village of Toscolano. These two elements are placed at the north and south cardinal points to imagine the village as a large stack, the positive pole of which is the copper plate and the negative pole is the zinc plate. Both were engraved from the artist's drawings. The copper plate depicts the ideas and wishes of the inhabitants with respect to their village, collected by Pajè during his stay. The zinc plate, on the other hand, shows geometric shapes, numbers, and diagrams derived from the artist's research into spiritual, magical, and pseudoscientific theories. This investigation interests the artist both aesthetically and speculatively. Indeed, the theories he has studied have given rise to a series of graphic elements that, according to Pajè, have potential formal value, usable as a veritable visual alphabet. They also bring to light central themes in contemporary times, such as the construction of official discourse on truth and the different and unusual forms of encoding reality, time and history. The use of copper and zinc alludes to the first static electricity generators invented in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by Alessandro Volta and John F. Daniell. Another reference is the initiatory techniques of a small mountain community in the Caucasus, recorded in a 1955 manuscript by S. C. Walewski, for whom copper and zinc are the basis for the construction of analog devices that generate a microcurrent in the human body, useful for rebalancing vital energies and amplifying the intentions of the user. Pila Thinkerwiller reworks this technique, poetically transferring its supposed operation from the human body to the inhabited suburb. Pila Thinkerwiller isan amplifier of ideas, a portrait of a time, a place, and a community.

Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi

Bolletti/no.11

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Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi

Bolletti/no.11

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24 pp.
purple ink
14,8 x 21 cm

The theme of the eleventh issue of Bolletti/no is SUMMER SUN. It invites readers to… impress. Aino’s mother teaches us how to create images with light and tumeric. You can find all the instructions you need in the last issue of Bolletti/no.

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.

Juan Sandoval

Earth Field Land Clay

€ 15

Juan Sandoval

Earth Field Land Clay

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96 pp.
14x20 cm
eng/esp

2023
ISBN 978-88-97753-92-6

Earth Field Land Clay are different words that rotate around a single element: the matter, and on which the poetics of this publication is built. Earth Field Land Clay is an artist’s book, in which the theme of the process of making objects is approached by making a parallel between the process of ceramics and the geological processes of the planet. The publication presents a series of images of objects made by the participants of the workshops “making the immaterial” conceived by the author of the book and held in various cities in Italy. The book contains a critical essay written by curator Jo Melvin, on the collective processes of creating objects in relation to the territory and the transformative character of these actions.

Cinzia Pietribiasi, Pierluigi Tedes…

Memorie del suolo

€ 12

Cinzia Pietribiasi, Pierluigi Tedeschi

Memorie del suolo

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Co-published with Imagonirmia
Introduction text by Isabella Bordoni

208 pp.
10×15 cm
ita

2023
ISBN 978-88-97753-95-7

Ten years of performance practices of the Pietribiasi/Tedeschi Company around the long term project #memoriedelsuolo told through the manipulation of a wide range of materials. A creative journey where the emotional temperature and degree of truth of the joint work of the artist duo Cinzia Pietribiasi and Pierluigi Tedeschi puts collective memory and archive in dialogue with processes, experimentations, readings, writings, stage gestures, public actions.

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Viaindustriae is a cultural association and publishing house based in Foligno, PG, Italy. Founded in 2005, it promotes projects and artistic research ranging from museum exhibitions, site-specific installations, public actions, artist residencies and publications in various formats. In the last ten years, the publishing activity has consolidated to become the association's main field of action. Viaindustriae publishes artists' books, experimental research books, territorial studies, exhibition catalogues, monographic catalogues - among other forms of publishing - using publishing practice as a generative tool for artistic experimentation. The books have different formats that do not follow the standards of a canonical publishing practice but rather the needs and specificities of each project. Viaindustriae sees the publishing practice as an act of translation that requires a transformation of the art or visual work into a new form, where the work itself develops new possibilities and meanings; this is why each book becomes an autonomous platform and not just an opportunity to transfer content.