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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February 2024
Presentation Saturday March 2nd, 6.30 pm,
La camera buissima – Viaggio alle origini della fotografia tra storie, invenzioni ed esperimenti with the authors Irene Lazzarin and Elisa Lauzana
We are back to TOOL for a presentation of a children's book that all of us adults should read! The presentation will be preceded at 4 pm by a photography workshop for children ages 8 to 11 inspired by the first chapter of the book.
It seems impossible, yet there has been a world without photographs. And when the first photographic images appeared in the 19th century, they looked nothing like the ones we know: th
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January 2024
On the road Until April 11th 2024,
Spazio Labo’: a new books display in dialogue with the exibition HUN by Julia Mejnertsen
We have brought to Spazio Labo' a new selection of books curated by Michael Trutta, who has chosen in Leporello a series of volumes that dialogues in various ways with the exhibition Hun, by Julia Mejnertsen, curated by Laura De Marco, and with the bibliography that has partly guided Laura's research. On view through April 11, 2024!
For the second photobookclub event, to be held on March 4, we have chosen from Michael's selection of
MOM,
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