September 2023
On the road Friday 8th - Sunday 10th September,
GU.PHO, Guiglia photo 2023
We are happy to take part to the second edition of GU.PHO, the festival dedicated to vernacular photography, this year will held during two weekends, September 8/9/10 and September 16/17, again at the Castle of Guiglia, in the province of Modena. The event involves nine Italian and international artists - Carolle Bénitah, Erik Kessels, Joachim Schmid, Baco About Photographs, Settimio Benedusi, Cristina Biagini, Marzio Govoni, Sergio Smerieri, Riccardo Zipoli - as well as us from Leporello and FOTO VIP f
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July 2023
On the road 5 | 6 July 2023, 10 am - 4 pm,
ICONOCLASTIC ACTION THROUGH FILMS AND BOOKS + INDEPENDENT ART BOOK CIRCUS
A collective thinking on rupture's phenomena proposed by AVARIE at the invitation of leboudoir2dot0
MDVA | maison de la vie associative
3, bd des lices
13200 arles | france
A two-day program of presentations, conversations, screenings and an independent art book fair during the Rencontres d'Arles photo festival. An off of the off event presented by Le Bir - Bureau d'Investigation du Réel.
Here the full program!
During AVARIE
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June 2023
Presentation Wednesday, June 28, 7 pm,
Utopie Dattilotessili by Davide Tocco published by Oreri, with curators Andrea Garcés and Luca Carboni in conversation with Federico Antonini
Utopie dattilotessili is a collaboration between the Sardinian artist Davide Tocco and Oreri-Iniziativa Editoriale. The book includes reproductions of 100 graphic works created by Davide Tocco between 2017 and 2022 with his Olivetti Dora. It also features a conversation by Fiammetta Pani and Ilaria Pisanu, an essay by Wu Ming 1, a glossary by Federico Antonini and Marta Veronese, and a conversation between the editors (Luca Carboni and Andrea Garcés) and Davide Tocco.
This bi
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June 2023
Exhibition Friday, June 16th, 6 pm,
Justine Kurland, SCUMB Manifesto in La città che non c’è. A poster exhibition on via Marin Sanudo as a thread between Leporello and Risma bookstores. Curated by Chiara Capodici
SCUMB Manifesto (Society for cutting up men's books) is Justine Kurland's latest book, in which the author presents a series of collages made by cutting up and giving new form to some of the most iconic images from books by artists who have monopolized the canon of the world of photography.
SCUMB Manifesto is an homage to the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist, who called for an end to men
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June 2023
ExhibitionPresentation Thursday, June 8th, 7 pm,
Kashi, by Tilby Vattard
"Varanasi, formerly known as Kashi, is a multi-thousand-year-old city in northern India. In a peaceful antagonism, spiritual fervor rubs shoulders with the race to modernity. Here, a sacred fire has been burning for over three thousand years, carrying the bodies of the dead in its smoke towards Moksha, deliverance from the cycle of rebirths. For me, photography is an act that involves the body and the mind, it's a meditation. And Varanasi, the spiritual
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May 2023
Through the book(s) Wednesday, May 31, 7 pm,
New Bodies. Gender Practices in Contemporary Art Publishing
We are finally ready to show you the selection of books resulting from the call in collaboration with TWM Factory, which will travel almost in parallel with dedicated space for publications within the Queer Pandèmia exhibition in Milan and with a dedicated book display in the spaces of Leporello, from May 31 until the end of July.The selection of titles on display at Leporello and BASE, with some variation between the two venues
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