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BRIEF INVENTORY OF ANIMAL RESISTANCE, VOL. 1
MICHELA DE MATTEI
2023, 208 pp., 23,5 × 32,5 cm, 500 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-8-5
ISBN 978-88-940857-8-5
Brief Inventory of Animal Resistance, VOL. 1 is an artist’s book and the first output of Until lions have their historians, hunters will always be the heroes, a long-term project by Michela de Mattei that will progressively expand through a series of releases across different media aiming to trace, weave, reimagine and circulate stories of animal resistance to human control and domination. The first volume records a series of neglected episodes of revolt and attack by animals against humans, combining them with other sources and a selection of texts by Val Plumwood, Jason Hribal along with a conversation with Filipa Ramos.
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NOUVEAU VENU, QUI CHERCHES ROME EN ROME
Gilles Raynaldy
2023, Poster, 70 × 100 cm, 300 copies
Nouveau venu, qui cherches Rome en Rome is the first of a series of publications created in collaboration with pianobi, Rome. The poster/leaflet, co-edited with purpose éditions, presents a photographic work centered on the city of Rome initiated by Gilles Raynaldy in 2020 and still ongoing, through a first selection of contact sheets from the artist’s archive. Departing from Porta Maggiore and cycling through the Eastern part of town, the artist stopped and lingered in certain transit points with his camera obscura, opening a shutter to the long observation of the landscape. The capturing device imposes a series of limitations adopted by Raynaldy to gain time, that is, the necessary time for the City to make itself present.
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EL ASUNTO MIGUEL
DIEGO MIGUEL MIRABELLA
2023, 48 pp., 22 × 32.5 cm, 400 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-7-8
El asunto Miguel contains a series of sculptures by Diego Miguel Mirabella, born from the collaboration between the artist and Peruvian mate burilado artisans, a pre-Inca engraving technique on ornamental gourds widespread in different regions of Peru. Mirabella entrusted the artisans with sentences and personal suggestions so they could be blended with more traditional representations of Andean culture. The artworks tower over pedestals especially made by the artist with various materials and techniques: visual interpretations of a travel account through the South American country and its landscape. The publication includes a text by Christian Oxenius and a conversation between the artist and Saverio Verini.
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EL ASUNTO MIGUEL – limited edition
DIEGO MIGUEL MIRABELLA
2023, 48 pp., 22 × 32.5 cm, 15 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-7-8
El asunto Miguel contains a series of sculptures by Diego Miguel Mirabella, born from the collaboration between the artist and Peruvian mate burilado artisans, a pre-Inca engraving technique on ornamental gourds widespread in different regions of Peru. Mirabella entrusted the artisans with sentences and personal suggestions so they could be blended with more traditional representations of Andean culture. The artworks tower over pedestals especially made by the artist with various materials and techniques: visual interpretations of a travel account through the South American country and its landscape. The publication includes a text by Christian Oxenius and a conversation between the artist and Saverio Verini.
The first 15 copies contain an original bronze cast by the artist on the mold of a portion of the engraved mate.
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AMICI O PITTORI
MARCO EMMANUELE
2023, 42 pp., 15.5 × 23.5 cm, 500 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-6-1
Between March and December 2022 sixteen painters met in the studio of artist Marco Emmanuele for a series of relational painting sessions using the Drawing machine #5.2. In each session two painters, both anchored to the machine and facing opposite directions, painted while transmitting their practice to their companion, who, in turn, followed it using the same brushes and colors. The publication was produced on the occasion of the exhibition Amici o pittori (2023, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome) and includes relational paintings by Marco Affaitati, Paolo Assenza, Orazio Battaglia, Dario Carratta, Giulio Catelli, Valerio Di Fiore, Marco Eusepi, Krizia Galfo, Alessandro Giannì, Luca Grechi, Charlotte Janis, Emiliano Maggi, Andrea Mauti, Gianni Politi, Fabrizio Sartori and Caterina Silva, as well as a series of conversations and texts by Marco Emmanuele and Diego Miguel Mirabella.
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QUADERNO
SILVIA ARGIOLAS
2022, 40 pp., 12.5 × 17.5 cm, 250 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-5-4
Quaderno is a series dedicated to the practice of drawing, made in collaboration with Galleria Richter, Rome. The publication contains Silvia Argiolas’ drawings exhibited in Song of myself (2022, Galleria Richter, Rome). The artist represents a black mythology that narrates ancestral fears, unspoken desires, and the maturing of identity in the relation between the individual and the external world. The depicted characters are accompanied by real and imaginary animals that participate in rites of passage and transformations. The cover features two works by artists Giulio Catelli and Luca Grechi.
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QUADERNO – limited edition
SILVIA ARGIOLAS
2022, 40 pp., 12.5 × 17.5 cm, 15 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-5-4
Quaderno is a series dedicated to the practice of drawing, made in collaboration with Galleria Richter, Rome. The publication contains Silvia Argiolas’ drawings exhibited in Song of myself (2022, Galleria Richter, Rome). The artist represents a black mythology that narrates ancestral fears, unspoken desires, and the maturing of identity in the relation between the individual and the external world. The depicted characters are accompanied by real and imaginary animals that participate in rites of passage and transformations. The cover features two works by artists Giulio Catelli and Luca Grechi.
The first 15 copies contain original Indian ink drawings on paper by Silvia Argiolas, numbered and signed.
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IALURGIA
MARCO EMMANUELE
2022, 20 pp., 22 × 31.5 cm, 250 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-2-3
Ialurgia is a chronological collection of paintings made by Marco Emmanuele between 2019 and 2021. His most recent research centers on painting with a vitreous mixture, through which the artist stages abysmal and dreamlike scenarios. In dialogue with classical painting techniques, Marco Emmanuele pulverizes visions made of glass and sand that tend towards abstraction. The book, published on the occasion of the exhibition Un raggio verde (2022, Operativa Arte Contemporanea, Rome), includes a selection of exhibition views and a text by Giuseppe Armogida.
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IALURGIA – limited edition
MARCO EMMANUELE
2022, 20 pp., 22 × 31.5 cm, 15 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-2-3
Ialurgia is a chronological collection of paintings made by Marco Emmanuele between 2019 and 2021. His most recent research centers on painting with a vitreous mixture, through which the artist stages abysmal and dreamlike scenarios. In dialogue with classical painting techniques, Marco Emmanuele pulverizes visions made of glass and sand that tend towards abstraction. The book, published on the occasion of the exhibition Un raggio verde (2022, Operativa Arte Contemporanea, Rome), includes a selection of exhibition views and a text by Giuseppe Armogida.
The covers of the first 15 copies are unique pieces customized by Marco Emmanuele using glass fragments and dust.
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QUADERNO
GIULIO CATELLI, LUCA GRECHI
2021, 40 pp., 12.5 × 17.5 cm, 250 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-4-7
Quaderno is a series dedicated to the practice of drawing, made in collaboration with Galleria Richter, Rome. The works on paper by Giulio Catelli and Luca Grechi, made between May and October 2021, convey on the one hand an idea of a painter’s private notebook, characterized by restless strokes and the raptus of intuition, and on the other completely autonomous pages and drawings that are fully representative of the author’s poetic traits. For the two artists drawing is not only tied to the thought of the new, linked to planning, but an effective instrument of inner probing, with the marks and gestures of their individual pictorial practices.
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QUADERNO – limited edition
GIULIO CATELLI, LUCA GRECHI
2021, 40 pp., 12.5 × 17.5 cm, 15 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-4-7
Quaderno is a series dedicated to the practice of drawing, made in collaboration with Galleria Richter, Rome. The works on paper by Giulio Catelli and Luca Grechi, made between May and October 2021, convey on the one hand an idea of a painter’s private notebook, characterized by restless strokes and the raptus of intuition, and on the other completely autonomous pages and drawings that are fully representative of the author’s poetic traits. For the two artists drawing is not only tied to the thought of the new, linked to planning, but an effective instrument of inner probing, with the marks and gestures of their individual pictorial practices.
The first 15 copies contain original lino prints numbered and signed by Giulio Catelli (Apologo del gattino, 2021) and Luca Grechi (Un saluto al cielo, 2021).
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RESISTENZE
JOSÉ ANGELINO
2021, 24 pp., 17 × 24 cm, 300 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-1-6
Resistenze presents the installations by José Angelino placed in different areas of Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto on the occasion of the exhibition Resistenze (2021, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto). His works investigate the possible mechanisms of energy visualization: light, electricity, sound waves, vibrations and temperature are the variables through which the artist elaborates on automatisms of action and reaction. The exhibition, curated by Davide Silvioli, is produced by Galleria Alessandra Bonomo in collaboration with Fondazione Carla Fendi and Mahler & LeWitt Studios.
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ISOLA
LUCA GRECHI
2021, 16 pp., 23.5 × 31.5 cm, 250 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-3-0
Isola brings together three large paintings that have represented the key passages in Luca Grechi’s artistic research from 2019 to 2021. In a game of layering and subtraction the artist alternates solid and transparent colors on the painting surface, where the matter of color disappears and reappears, chasing an unstable and perhaps unattainable balance. The publication, made on the occasion of the exhibition Mi frullla in testa un’isola (2021, Richter Fine Art, Rome) includes a text by Marco Deserto, Chi più di una stella sta…là, a futuristic surreal dialogue that blends art, science fiction and politics.
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ISOLA – limited edition
LUCA GRECHI
2021, 16 pp., 23.5 × 31.5 cm, 30 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-3-0
Isola brings together three large paintings that have represented the key passages in Luca Grechi’s artistic research from 2019 to 2021. In a game of layering and subtraction the artist alternates solid and transparent colors on the painting surface, where the matter of color disappears and reappears, chasing an unstable and perhaps unattainable balance. The publication, made on the occasion of the exhibition Mi frullla in testa un’isola (2021, Richter Fine Art, Rome) includes a text by Marco Deserto, Chi più di una stella sta…là, a futuristic surreal dialogue that blends art, science fiction and politics.
The first 30 copies contain original lino prints numbered and signed by Luca Grechi (Mi frulla in testa un’isola, 2021).
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PAESAGGI
ALESSANDRO DANDINI DE SYLVA
2015, 48 pp. + insert, 22 × 33 cm, 300 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-0-9
Paesaggi is a collection of photographic experiments. A research on the possible ways of representing landscape through photography. Alessandro Dandini de Sylva creates images that transform into a succession of colors and abstract shapes by manipulating instant films and reducing the photographic process to its essence. The ambiguous nature of the work investigates the relationship between photography, reality and representation. The publication, made on the occasion of the exhibition Paesaggi (2014, Operativa, Rome), includes a text by Gianni Garrera, Trillo.
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PAESAGGI – limited edition
ALESSANDRO DANDINI DE SYLVA
2015, 48 pp. + insert, 22 × 33 cm, 10 copies
ISBN 978-88-940857-0-9
Paesaggi is a collection of photographic experiments. A research on the possible ways of representing landscape through photography. Alessandro Dandini de Sylva creates images that transform into a succession of colors and abstract shapes by manipulating instant films and reducing the photographic process to its essence. The ambiguous nature of the work investigates the relationship between photography, reality and representation. The publication, made on the occasion of the exhibition Paesaggi (2014, Operativa, Rome), includes a text by Gianni Garrera, Trillo.
The last 10 copies contain interventions made by the artist by printing instant film on paper.