Tesoro carissimo, by Sara Basta, published by Viaindustriae. With Sara Basta, Cecilia Canziani, Ilaria Gianni and Costanza Meli

Tesoro carissimo is the monograph dedicated to the work and research of Sara Basta, published by Viaindustriae and edited by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni.

Titled after the eponymous exhibition hosted last year in the spaces of IUNO, the editorial project retraces the artist’s career, delving into some of the themes that inform her practice: the collective dimension, expressed both through the use of the workshop format and through the participatory creation of the artwork; that of dwelling, which also implies a political positioning; and that of care, which clearly underlies the first two and manifests itself within the publication itself.

The voices invited to contribute, in fact, do not limit themselves to outlining a profile: they weave her story starting from the feeling of friendship they share, from the urgencies that bring them together.

The result is a portrait that is at once personal and collective, a monograph resembling the texture of a fabric spun or woven by many hands, recounting the time of artistic creation as coinciding with that of life.

Texts by: Cecilia Canziani, Ilaria Gianni, Ane Rodríguez Armendariz, Costanza Meli, Angelika Burtscher