Illustrations for Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann, new Italian translation by Ginevra Quadrio Curzio, 98 pages, 4 colors, La vita felice Milano 2021
Schiaccianoci e il re dei topi
Work for years around a theme, and something happens. In this case, I met economist Pierangelo Dacrema and we decided to try and work together on his ideas for a moneyless world. I proposed a workshop for his students at Università della Calabria, and we made a book out of the experience. I still don't think it would be easy, or even right, but I was curious and trying to understand. 328 pages, Jaca Book, Milano 2016
La morte del denaro
Food, its history and how what we eat has been traveling for millennia, going from culture to culture: Babelfood.
With two short essays by Grazia Quaroni and René Berger. 64 pages, 3 languages, 4 colors, ArtShow edizioni, Milano 2005
Babelfood |
Herstories combines my photos with short stories about women. They can be personal or alter-biographical, and come either in Italian or in English. The translations in the book are intentionally unfaithful to the original, because when I change language my point of view changes.
Herstories, la centrale edizioni, 2018: 100 pages, 4 colors, 2 languages.
Herstories
Standby is about the failed, ambitious relational projects based on my wish to mix and connect disciplines and people around ideas.
Written in English, French, Italian, it is the summary of dozens of proposals, acting as an agent provocateur of thought, and trying to give a new, multilayered, intercultural meaning to the process of spreading and sharing knowledge, initiating interaction and creating networks through contemporary art. Book (144 pages, tgbook 2013) signing and brunch during a one-day exhibition: photos, videos, strawberries, coffee/tea and biscuits, with the support of Orio Vergani (Nowhere and P7-15mq), Milano. Ph. Maura Tacchinardi
Standby (unfinished art projects)
A selection from a series of small abstract landscapes, not much larger than postcards, postcards written by acquaintances and friends and a travel diary.
64 pages, color, 1000 copies numbered and signed, Ikonos editore, Bergamo 1997
Cartoline |
Pizza, spaghetti... Italian food is loved everywhere, but sometimes its origins aren't acknowledged, and people abroad don't know how to pronounce their names.
This work about food is entirely visual, but also mostly about sounds. Try to hear them in your mind and you'll have a taste of Italy.
Digital print, 50 copies, numbered and signed, 145x210 mm
la cucina italiana |
For a long time I tried to contact a Parisian curator, without succeeding. In June 2003, I decided to do what so many others had done before: sent her postcards from a train journey from Venice to Otranto. They were blank postcards, with a caption, she needed to imagine everything.
I might have come close to conceptual art.
Digital print, 20 copies, numbered and signed, 145x210 mm
mailart |
At the time, around 1998, everybody was renovating apartments and I couldn't work: by day I recorded a soundtrack out of the noise to make a video, at night I was drawing and collage-ing a long series of small books.
Some time later I asked a photographer friend, Renato Sala, to help me and make photos of some books, as if they were read by a Canova's statue, or by a skeleton.
The pictures were printed in ribbons, to give a rough idea of the leafing-through process.