Settembre 2020
Andrea Botto, artist
19.06_26.08.1945, book, published by Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna 2014
At the end of the Second World War, the artist’s grandfather, Primo Benedetti, comes home after two years of imprisonment as an Italian Military Internee in the German labor camps. He carries a small journal upon which he takes note of all the cities passed along his journey. About seventy years later, Andrea Botto retraces this itinerary within an artist’s book, published in
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Settembre 2020
Sveva Taverna, photographer
Arraicas (Roots), photographic work, in progress
Nowadays a kind of 'normality' is disappearing. The normality of a peasant, archaic, ancestral world, for which our twentieth-century 'poet of meat' Pier Paolo Pasolini fought. The photographic project Arraicas aims to tell human abilities shown within this context. Chosen land: Sardinia’s rugged and wild backcountry, depicted through women faces and bodies, whilst they engage in daily routine; these women seem to have passed through centuries before
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Settembre 2020
Erik Göngrich, artist
Warburgs AUTO CINEMA, project proposal
During his residency in the German Academy Villa Massimo, Erik Göngrich wandered around the city taking picures and drawings now collected in the publication Atlas of Sculptural Situations, published by eeclectic, and worked on the Pigneto area, where urban planning coexist and sometimes blends in with spontaneous architecture, seamlessly from the 50s on, focussing on a small two-storeys concrete structure in via del Pigneto. The house frame
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