May 2023
Presentation Tuesday, May 16, 7 pm,
Artphilein publishing house presentation and focus on I had to shed my skin, by Matteo di Giovanni with the author and Vittoria Fragapane
Artphilein Editions edits and produces photographic and artist's books, focusing mainly on topics related to human impact on the environment and travel, exploring remote landscapes and borderlands, and critically investigating current territorial transformations.All Artphilein activities are supported by the De Pietri Artphilein Foundation: a nonprofit focused on the promotion of contemporary art.
Among their most recent publications are Scatti, by Marco D'Anna, Iarivo' ny mavo, by Tolojanahary Ranaivosoa, Sin
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May 2023
Presentation Wednesday, May 10, 7 pm,
The new issue of Ossì with Laura Marzi, Alice Scornajenghi and Francesca Pignataro
Ossì #7 is a special issue. For the first time, the fanzine hosts no photographer or photographer's photos, in their place the sexting nudes of fans collected through an open call. Dick pic, boobs, mirrors, and cell phones, all (literally) naked and raw as sex. The story in this issue is written by Laura Marzi, the playlist for fucking is curated by Playgirls from Caracas.
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April 2023
Presentation Wednesday April 26th, 7 pm,
Book presentation Tiempo Cero, by David Jiménez published by Infinito Books, with the collaboration of Biblioteques de Barcelona and display of David publications
Tiempo cero is a book that proposes a singular alliance between the sequence of stills from an audiovisual produced by David Jiménez and a chapter from the novel Lo demás es aire by Juan Gómez Bárcena, which here adopts a kind of versified form. Both can be read sequentially or freely within the microcosm that unfolds in the book.
In Tiempo cero, as in other project
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April 2023
ExhibitionPresentation Friday, april 21st, 7 pm,
Fabio Sgroi, Archivio Volume 1. curated by BACO – About Photographs
On April 21 we will open a new exhibition in Rome, curated by our friends BACO - About Photographs, who will set up in the bookshop a selection of Fabio Sgroi's photographs featured in their new publication Archive Volume 1. At 7 pm there will be a presentation of the mentioned book.
Palermo, 1984. The second Mafia war has ended with the confirmation of the Corleonesi, in July Giovanni Falcone flies to Brazil to talk to Buscetta,
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March 2023
Presentation Wednesday April 5th, 7 pm,
Swim till I sank, with the author Gabriele Stabile in conversation with Tiziana Lo Porto. Published by RVM.
“What happens to journalistic reportage photographs when the news is published, outdated and years of new news put distance between the shot and the life of the image?” This seems to be the question Gabriele Stabile asks himself when, after more than a decade, he reopens his archive and begins his creative journey with the photographs deposited there, transforming them into the plates you see as you leaf through the book. The photographer’
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March 2023
Presentation Wednesday March 29th, 7 pm,
La Bête – A Modern Tale. With Yasmina Benabderrahmane, published by Mack
In 2012, Benabderrahmane returned to her home country of Morocco after 12 years, crossing the dunes and plains to create Super-8 films mapping out the ever-changing landscape. The film stills collected in this book invite us to follow the path winding between tradition and modernity. We travel to the Bouregreg Valley, a new cultural centre which symbolizes the modernity and changing physiognomy of ancestral lands. Further afield, we discover the desert plains of Chichaoua, rocky an
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