March 2024
Presentation Wednesday March 27th, 7 pm,
Yes to All – a photographic investigation on the anthropization of the Alps by Mattia Micheli and Nicolò Panzeri, published by Emergenze Publishing. With Mattia Micheli and Antonio Brizioli
Many have photographed the Alps in search of naturalism, tradition, wilderness, and purity. These concepts belong more to the imaginary mythology of the mountains than to the current anthropological dimension, which is full of contradictions and habits that damn well resemble those of the rest of the world.The ultimate symbol of wild, unspoiled nature, this vast and inaccessible territory was for a long time exempt from the typical realities of the capitalist system
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March 2024
Presentation Tuesday March 19th, 4 to 8 pm,
Book display and presentation of the Shibboleth project with Allegra Baggio Corradi and Elisa Mapelli
Shibboleth is a nonprofit arts organization with publishing at its core. Shibboleth is also the first chapter of Emic Units, a series about the migration of ideas exploring how far the confines of meaning can be stretched geographically, historically, metaphorically and visually.On Tuesday afternoon we’ll have the chance to talk with Allegra and Elisa about the various facets of this organization and enjoy the first publications they have produced.The bo
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March 2024
Presentation Friday March 15th, 7 pm,
AS IF—16 Dialogues about Sheep, Black Holes, and Movement a book by Lungomare, curated by Angelika Burtscher and Daniele Lupo, published by Spector Books. With Angelika Burtscher and Daniele Lupo, together with Nasrin Mohiti Asli and Juan López Cano – orizzontale, Cecilia Canziani and Erika Mayr. In collaboration with IUNO
The reader AS IF—16 Dialogues about Sheep, Black Holes, and Movement is a study about our lives that starts from the urgent desire to change it and imagine a different future through artistic and creative practices. Edited by Angelika Burtscher and Daniele Lupo, founders and artistic directors of the Lungomare platform for cultural production and design, the book is structured into sixteen conversations where dialogue is adopted as the main form of relationship tha
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March 2024
Presentation Wednesday March 13th, 7 pm,
Cesare Bossi, The shift of tecnologies, dal Dye Transfer a Piezography. Racconti ed incontri. published by Centro Di, with Gabriele Maschio
The shift of tecnologies, dal Dye Transfer a Piezography. Racconti ed incontri tells in first-person the story of Cesare Bossi, a photography printer.
His fine art photo lab, the ACSAF in Viale Volta in Florence, becomes since the late 1980s a crossroads where heterogeneous figures and dynamics of the Italian and international photographic universe converge: from prints for collectors and museums to those for the medium-high end commercial market, from the relationship wi
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March 2024
Exhibition Opening Saturday March 9th, 7 pm,
Ombretta Gamberale and Futura Tittaferrante, ardito desìo
‘I am a stone. I repeat: a stone. I know you cannot understand me; I should explain these four words to you one by one and in groups of two and three and then all at once: what I mean when I say I, and when I say being, and when I say stone, and what it means to be stone, and one, a stone... maybe in this stone world there is no before or
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February 2024
On the road Monday 4 March, 7:30 pm,
Photobook club – stagione 1, episodio 2 MOM, by Charlie Engman, published by Patrick Frey. Texts by Rachel Cusk, Miranda July; design: Brian Paul Lamotte
Who Kathleen McCain Engman? How many answers can we find?
In this collective reading, getting through an analysis of Engman's images we’ll try to deconstruct the camera's obsessive gaze on the mother figure. We will delve into the multiplicity of languages and styles used, quotations, the role of portrait photography, and its relationships with literature and visual art.
The title of the book reveals the identity of its main chara
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