Der Engel is a photographic work made during an artistic residency in Poland between 2018 and 2021. At the invitation of the Fotofestiwal to work on the city of Lodz, located in the centre of Poland, the author, drawing on his personal perceptions, feelings and passions in relation to his experience and contact with the city, decided to create a work inspired by Wim Wenders' movie “Wings of Desire ”, thus imagining himself to be an angel who, con

An extreme weather event hit north-eastern Italy in October 2018. The Sirocco wind blew up to 200 kilometres per hour through the Dolomite valleys, knocking some 14 million trees to the ground. The incessant rain caused torrents to overflow, dragging logs and debris downstream. Overnight, the inhabitants of a number of mountain communities in Trentino, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia found their cellars flooded and even their houses torn apart by the winds. More than six years later, th

At Leporello, for the first time in Rome, Giuliana Prucca will present her book Devenir minéral, published by L'éditeur du dimanche in Paris. This essay establishes critical and poetic connections among texts and works by various artists, writers, and thinkers—from Antonin Artaud to Jean Dubuffet, Jan Fabre, Anselm Kiefer, Yves Klein, Gutaï, Joë Bousquet, Francis Ponge, Gaston Bachelard, Gilles Deleuze, and Aby Warburg—through the prism of the mineral element, encompassing stone, s

On 8 December 1854, Pius IX declared the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. After 1500 years, the Ineffabilis Deus papal bull put an end to theological disputes on whether the mother of God had been conceived without sin. The reasons may have been political: the Pope had just returned to the Vatican after his exile during the Second Roman Republic. He had lost earthly power and was seeking a way to reconcile the faithful. However, paradoxically, th

We begin this month with a presentation that will also be a small party here in Leporello 🎉🎊🎉 La Teoria del Vuoto (The Void Theory) originates from a photograph depicting a scene of everyday life in Buccinasco, a suburb near Milan. Years ago, in that quiet rural setting, some weapons were found, hidden or abandoned by unknown people. This discovery gave rise to a web of episodes, places, and people that spread across It