Francesco Cavaliere
Popoli di Vetro
€ 15
Francesco Cavaliere
Popoli di Vetro
€ 15
Popoli di Vetro is an artist's book in the form of a fantastical novella. Here, the writing generates an imaginative world in which glass is the pervasive element the protagonist must deal with.
Tan – also known as Metastasio – moves freely in an abyssal setting, searching for springs and fountains he collects as if they were treasures to be kept. His relationship with water becomes irresistible since, as a child, he accidentally swallowed glass.
In a succession of phantasmagoric visions, changes in material state, blinding mirages, and intermittent darkness, Tan encounters hybrid entities—animals/women/men/animated objects—that form the peoples of glass.
In this book, Cavaliere consolidates his writing practice as an artistic sign. The text is offered as an object for decoding both word and vision; the realm of literature overlaps with that of art, and reading becomes an act of imagination.
Kolxoz Collective
QUASI-BOOK
€ 15
Kolxoz Collective
Quasi-Book. On Poetry, Bureaucracy and Alibism
€ 15
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.
Jonathan Monk
Sol LeWitt Rules
€ 20
Jonathan Monk
Sol LeWitt Rules
€ 20
Jonathan Monk's first show with Yvon Lambert’s Paris gallery was in 1997 and the artist continued working with him until he closed in 2014. At some point in the early 2000’s Yvon gave Monk a ruler, stamped into the top are the initials SL and he was told that twenty years earlier Sol LeWitt left it behind after installing a show. This 30cm ruler was the starting point for the publication and the edition of 100 ceramic rulers it documents. Jonathan Monk’s rulers aren’t straight, they don’t have any numbers nor lines on them and each one is slightly different to the next. The process used is the one of extrusion, pushing manually the clay through a metal profile made exactly as the original ruler given to the artist by Yvon Lambert. Sol LeWitt Rules was produced at the historical ceramic workshop La Gioconda in Deruta, which in the 1980s worked closely with Sol LeWitt for his production of ceramic plates and tiles. This book includes 100 photographs of the 100 rulers made on the occasion of Jonathan Monk’s exhibition SL at the Torre Bonomo in Spoleto. The quicker you flick through it, the faster it moves.
Luca Trevisani
SALAD OF FOSSILS
€ 35
Luca Trevisani
SALAD OF FOSSILS
€ 35
Back in 2017, the research team composed of Luca Trevisani, Mario Ciaramitaro and Giulia Morucchio exposed themselves to hundreds of artworks in search of examples of works capable of creating tension, a centrifugal force for anyone who might encounter them without any introduction or notice. Works that reach out to someone, seek attention, set a trap for someone. This approach, conceived by Luca Trevisani, became a collective studio practice of learning and teaching, open to wild and unexpected suggestions and ideas revolving around the possibility of finding these tensions, this gravitational field. Luca Trevisani and Mario Ciaramitaro printed, composed, and photographed this illustrated itinerary on the wall, unfolding the cartography of these remote and powerful encounters on the perimeter of our Iuav classrooms. All that remained was to photograph this map, reprint it, lay it out, and then offer this flow of lively and rebellious images. The process originated from the images that have been collectively sought for several months. While Mario and the students engaged in their role-playing as iconauts, with Giulia Morucchio, persisted in collecting and reworking texts, captions, and overheard legends, always mindful that every beautiful story holds an element of truth. What you read below are the traces, the details, and some of the clues that comprise our collection of fresh fossils and the salad we crafted from them.
Caretto/Spagna
Bright Ecologies. Caretto/Spagna: Experiences, Forms, Materials
€ 30
Caretto/Spagna
Bright Ecologies. Caretto/Spagna: Experiences, Forms, Materials
€ 30
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.
Luca Pucci
Quattro
€ 16
Luca Pucci
Quattro
€ 16
Ogni anno, al Carnevale di Sant’Eraclio (Foligno, PG), sfilano carri allegorici. Vengono fatti in cartapesta usando tre tipi di giornale: bianco (La Nazione), giallo (Il Sole 24 Ore), rosa (La Gazzetta dello Sport). Quattro prova ad aggiungere un quarto colore. Quattro può essere acquistato con o senza multiplo in edizione limitata.
Andrea Martinucci
TURBOMONDI (STRATIGRAFIA)
€ 20
Andrea Martinucci
TURBOMONDI (STRATIGRAFIA)
€ 20
Turbomondi (Stratigrafia) encompasses the project artist Andrea Martinucci developed between 2020 and 2023, dedicated to a research of suspended worlds populated by creatures investigating their integrity in a continuous evolution among themselves. Turbomondi is a collection of film treatments by the artist and screenwriter Laura Sinceri. It took the form of a unique screenplay that, from 2021, was entrusted to twelve people who interpreted it in a specific time frame, allowing them to write comments, make observations, remove pages, draw or even destroy parts of it. The layering of different voices and impressions that virtually redefines the meaning of the original text is transformed into a personal archive and a publication that traces the evolution and the plural transformation of its contents. Project contributions by Alice, Lisa Andreani, Maria Vittoria Di Sabatino, Aurelio Di Virgilio, Francesca Ferrari, Giulia Geromel, Marialaura Grandolfo, Pietro Librizzi, Zeno Piovesan, Cecilia Saita, Carla Subrizi, Cosimo Rizzo.
Francesco Cavaliere
Il Grillo Minerva
€ 30
Francesco Cavaliere
Il Grillo Minerva
€ 30
Il Grillo Minerva is a story about an unknown city. A city built from animal stones. Two brothers, on a break from a long journey, somehow discover its existence. Artist's book by Francesco Cavaliere, printed in 100 copies
Luca Boffi (Alberonero)
CARO CAMPO
€ 30
Luca Boffi (Alberonero)
Caro Campo. Workbook
€ 30
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
€ 10
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.
Juan Sandoval
Earth Field Land Clay
€ 15
Juan Sandoval
Earth Field Land Clay
€ 15
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
€ 12
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.
Aldo Grazzi
Il Tuffatore
€ 20
Aldo Grazzi
Il Tuffatore
€ 20
"This book is about love, life, death and resurrection. In March 2008 Carla, the love of my life, died. We had been together for 35 years and had never left each other. The painful sense of lack had created a void in me that I perceived as a half-death. Placed at the edge of that dark abyss I was distracted by a call to life. It was Evelina, also suffering from the loss of her friend. We began an almost daily email correspondence that lasted a couple of years, writing about topics suggested by our state of grief. From those very many pages I have extracted short sentences that reconstruct the dialogue at the time for this artist's book. In the front facing each sentence I drew a black vignette differentiated only by the outer outline. Black hole where everything seems to fall. Black fabric button that years ago was worn on the lapel of the jacket of mourning males." Aldo Grazzi
Meletios Meletiou
EPIDERMIS
€ 150
Meletios Meletiou
EPIDERMIS
€ 150
Epidermis collects suggestions and scans of urban space, or rather of its decorative mantle, as part of an analytical practice aimed at detecting the distorions and pitfalls of the collective and democratic enjoyment of its public spaced. Cypriot artist Meletios Meltiou’s board book, of which 100 copies have been printed, consists of fifteen four-color and singe-color printed panels based on graphic elaborations in which the artist digitally shapes and molds a core of iconic patterns of hostile architecture.
Davide D'Elia
Tiepido Cool
€ 25
Davide D'Elia
Tiepido Cool
€ 25
Tiepido Cool collects Davide D’Elia’s artistic research of the last fifteen years through images that follows the poetic criterion introduced by the title. The two words, Tiepido, Italian, and Cool, English, guide the succession of works in a path that privileges perceptual rather than chronological-biographical experience. Perceived by the artist as antithetical, London and Rome become the two ends of a discourse that converges at a point of balance, highlighting the duality on which his work hinges, both belonging to art and communication. Trained as a visual designer and moved to London in the early 2000s as a creative, here D’Elia began to focus on the themes of an aesthetic investigation that, upon his return to Rome in 2011, became fully conscious. The artist’s two souls complement each other by permeating “warm” works of an organic nature and “cold” works dominated by the use of iris blue antifouling paint; between the two extremes a cycle of “cool” works in which the lexicon of the buoy translates this necessary coexistence between dichotomies.
Two texts, by Elisa Del Prete and Mike Watson, antithetical in latitude, training and style, trace the guidelines for a never exhaustive reading of D’Elia’s work.
Tiepido Cool is supported by Italian Council (X edizione, 2021), project of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture for the production, knowledge and dissemination of creation contemporary Italian in the field of visual arts; coordinated and produced by Nosadella.due, curated by Elisa Del Prete and Silvia Litardi (NOS Visual Arts Production), in collaboration with Viaindustriae publishing and <rotor> Center for Contemporary Art (Graz), cultural partners: Musei Civici d’Arte Antica | Settore Musei Civici Bologna (Museo Davia Bargellini, Bologna); MAXXI, Museo delle Arti del XXI Secolo (Roma); Myymälä2 Gallery (Helsinki); Centre for Poetic Innovation, Universities of Dundee and St Andrews (St Andrews); Cultural Center GRAD (Belgrado).
Flavio Favelli
I Maestri Serie Oro
€ 30
Flavio Favelli
I Maestri Serie Oro
€ 30
I maestri serie oro è un’opera di Flavio Favelli composta dai 278 fascicoli monografici della serie “I Maestri del Colore” della Fratelli Fabbri Editori, uscita in edicola tra il 1963 e il 1967, fenomeno culturale di prima grandezza che rivoluzionò il mercato editoriale negli anni del boom economico. Favelli ha lavorato su ciascuna delle iconiche copertine, interagendo con la loro eleganza formale, con il loro equilibrio tra grafica e taglio fotografico dei particolari pittorici. Ha utilizzato una o più cartine dorate dei Ferrero Rocher per occultare i volti dei ritratti, le scene aneddotiche, le porzioni di quadri, affreschi e mosaici dove campeggia la figura umana. Favelli riporta le riproduzioni delle grandi opere d’arte ad uno stato di impenetrabilità, quasi di chiusa sacralità: è un gesto che mescola la cura all’iconoclastia, quasi fosse necessaria una nuova ricarica del senso per delle immagini forse troppo note, persino troppo ammiccanti nella loro conquistata emblematicità. Il libro è il catalogo della mostra dal medesimo titolo presso la GAM di Torino nel 2022. L’opera è vincitrice del dell’avviso pubblico PAC2020, promosso dalla DGCC del Minsitero della Cultura.
Mattia Pajè
1
€ 20
Mattia Pajè
1
€ 20
1 is an artist’s manual by Mattia Pajè containing a series of instructions for the use of paranormal techniques, related to healing and personal development – experienced by Pajè in the course of his research – which in the book are blended with notes and poetic compositions. These are accompanied by illustrations and graphic sketches that reinterpret the contents of pseudoscientific manuals and independent blogs. The book collects six texts by different authors writing about the idea of truth, addressing the topic from the different angles. Texts by Flavia Monceri, political philosopher; Stella Succi, art historian; Giovanni Rendina, art curator; Bruno Paura, plant ecologist; Mariagrazie Ciaccia, counsellor and Hatha Yoga teacher; Simone Romagnoli, pedagogist and computer scientist; Settimo Catalano, psychotherapist. Editorial project made with the support of Fondazione del Monte, in collaboration with Art City Bologna, MamBo, Arte Fiera, Associazione BOCA e Gelateria sogni di ghiaccio. Book curated and coordinated by Giovanni Rendina. Graphic design by Marco Casella.
Giulio Lacchini
Museo dell’evidenza
€ 15
Giulio Lacchini
Museo dell’evidenza
€ 15
“Oggi l’evidenza è tutto ciò che non siamo più in grado di osservare. È tutto ciò che è minimo, silenzioso, discreto. Tale è questo diario per immagini, un lavoro incessante di perlustrazione, un segno, una frase, una traccia, un momento di ordinaria quotidianità, una strada anonima, un paesaggio desolato, un volto, un punto, una riflessione, forme che ricordano altro, che ricostruiscono altro. […] Creare un museo immaginario di ciò che è evidente vuol dire proprio il contrario, ossia valorizzare ciò che non lo è. Uno strumento musicale che non suona: un ciclo di sculture di alcuni anni fa di Lacchini ci ha fatto comprendere la sua propensione a una dimensione altra, in cui la forma deve muoversi con disinvolta complicità con l’intuizione e, soprattutto, con la riflessione. La sua produzione editoriale, sempre più curata e intensa, è piena di sguardi verso un altrove che nel museo dell’evidenza ritroveremo tutti: sarà un luogo immaginario in cui finalmente fermarci a guardare, dando spazio a ciò che abbiamo sempre ignorato, confrontandoci su ciò che è poco visibile, rispettando tutto quel che è solo apparantemente irrilevante” Lorenzo Madaro
Laura Pugno
Over Time
€ 15
Laura Pugno
Over Time
€ 15
Substance with a mysterious fascination, which seems to belong to an eternal time, snow has always been a lure for explorers, scientists, and artists; an everchanging matter and at the same time solid memory of the world. Drawing on the magnetism that this element exercises on the humansoul, the artist Laura Pugno with the video installation Over Time explores the tensions and the reasons for this natural connection; the need to live, study and create snow in the time of climate emergencies.
Marco Eusepi
Untitled (La Pelle della Materia)
€ 20
Marco Eusepi
Untitled (La Pelle della Materia)
€ 20
A tree, specifically a plane tree, is the subject portrayed by the artist careless of repetition and, at the same time, of the variety used to transform it in a pictorial surface. This tree is the anonymous protagonist: that’s why “untitled2. In fact, the plane trees are horizon friends that Eusepi used to observe and study from the window of his “house-atelier” in his everyday life in Anzio. Those trees have been a constant, monotonous presence and passive interlocutors for a pictorial pretext. Eusepi considers reality and natural subjects as pictorial occasions, visual pretexts to test the grip of color on the canvas as if it were “skin”.
Enzo Cucchi
Exercises on Ezra
€ 40
Enzo Cucchi
Exercises on Ezra
€ 40
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.
Laura Agnusdei
Ubi Consistam
€ 10
Laura Agnusdei
Ubi Consistam
€ 10
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.
Jacopo Miliani
La discoteca
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Jacopo Miliani
La discoteca
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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.
VV. AA.
A Week from Monday
€ 20
VV. AA.
A Week from Monday
€ 20
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.