January 2024
Presentation Thursday 22 February 7 pm,
Sancta Ratio Chaotica! L’ora felice in La maggiore by Alessandra Piolotto
Sancta Ratio Chaotica! L'ora felice in La maggiore is part of the larger body of work Photo Trouvée: la parola all'immagine, which began in 2015, in collaboration with Micamera_Milano, presented at the Pac-Padiglone of contemporary art in Milan in 2016 in a series of meetings dedicated to archive fever.
From 2019 it finds periodic return in the Cinema Beltrade in Milan, in dialogue with the independent film festival Indocili, dedicated to young Italian
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January 2024
Exhibition Thursday January 18th, 7 pm,
Swim Till I sank, by Gabriele Stabile
We are happy to begin the year with a reflection on process through an exhibition devoted to the transitions from photograph to artwork and from artwork to book. "What happens to journalistic reportage photographs when the news is published, outdated, and years of new news put distance between the shot and the life of the image?"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 an
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January 2024
Presentation Thursday, 15 February at 7pm,
New Works for a Post-Worker’s World by Rodrigo Valenzuela
In New Works for a Post-Worker’s World, Valenzuela continues to deeply address the realities of working-class lives in the United States and the power structures to which they are subjected, already explored in his oeuvre. The publication collects a new body of works of black-and-white images, scenes of machine-like contrivances meant to evoke labour and its afterlife, in dialogue with a visual essay made of archival images highlighting the power struggle between American
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January 2024
Workshop Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th February, 10 am - 2 pm; 3 - 6 pm,
Swim Till I sank, from process to work and from work to book, curated by Gabriele Stabile and Francesca Pignataro
Swim Till I sank is the result of many processes of reworking and layering of a work whose starting point is his photographic archive, images at first made for an editorial context, but very far from exhausting their life and function once published, when and if published.
Over the years going back to the memory of the experience of those events has pushed Gabriele to reappropriate that visual material through a physical rework
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January 2024
Presentation Thursday February 8th, 7 pm,
Poetic-musical performance by Alessandro Ciccarelli and Leonardo Zaccone inspired by the photographic fanzine: Il lavoro del musicista (in accordo con Paul Éluard)
For the first time, Leporello is hosting a performance of music and poetry within its spaces, thanks to the magic of the duo composed of Alessandro Ciccarelli and Leonardo Zaccone.
In the early 1940s, Paul Éluard wrote two short poems in seven chapters, “Le travail du poète” and “Le travail du peintre” dedicated to Pablo Picasso, a fraternal friend.Before being published at the tail end of “Poésie ininterrompue,” the two pr
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December 2023
Presentation Wednesday January 31st, 7 pm,
I am not a robot, by Andrea Alessandrini, published by Witty Books. With Andrea Alessandrini and David Mozzetta
Yin and yang, black and white, 0 and 1 are the symbols underlying everything.Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz came to this conclusion around 1700, when he found confirmation of his ideas in the hexagrams of the Book of Changes, written in China six and a half centuries earlier.In 1854, George Boole published the foundations of Boolean Algebra (according to which 0 is false and 1 is true).In 1949, Boolean logic was adopted by Claude Shannon to explain the operation of
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