October 2024
Presentation Monday, November 25th, 7 pm,
Giuliana Prucca, Devenir minéral and Snaturamenti | a workbook by Flatform on displacement
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
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October 2024
Friday Novembrer 22nd, 8 pm,
There is no Calm after the Storm, Matteo De Mayda in dialogo con Daria Scolamacchia
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
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October 2024
Wednesday November 20th, 7 pm,
Iacopo Pasqui, Der Engel, published by Witty Books
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
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October 2024
ExhibitionPresentationWorkshop Thursday November 14th and Friday 15th,
Davide Degano and Marcello Coslovi: Romanzo Meticcio and The Wrong Side of the Tracks. Two visions in dialogue about multiculturalism and integration in Italy, two days straddling exhibition and editorial design.
Davide Degano and Marcello Coslovi have been carrying out research work for years on issues that are often confused and mixed up: while Davide focuses more on the recognition of a new Italian-ness, Marcello talks about integration, starting from a real situation of exclusion and precariousness. The two authors, in addition to sharing visions and interests with respect to topics such multiculturalism and racial integration in Italy, share a common focus and deep work on
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October 2024
On the road Wednesday 6th - Friday 8th November,
See you at Polycopies!
See you again at Polycopies with the now well-established double trouble Leporello books + Grani edizioni.
Besides the latest books published by Leporello books, Il Matto è Il Mondo - Tarocchi, by Anna Luna Astolfi, and Almanac of Forgotten Memories, by Federico Possati, published together with Skinnerboox, we will share with you Federica Landi's latest book, The Ballad of Silent Seeds, published by Fugazine, the new volumes published by Palermo Editions, the latest book published by P
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