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December 2020
East of Nowhere
In 1987, Fabio Ponzio embarked on a photographic odyssey across Central and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Starting in Istanbul, and making his way to Poland, Ponzio found little food in the shops and long lines to buy bread. With supplies dwindling in the shops and immense crowds to buy necessities, the countries along his route were on the verge of collapse. And in the autumn of 1989, as the various regimes of communist countries from Bud
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May 2020
L’ARCHITETTURA DEGLI ALBERI
The drawings of the book L'Architettura degli Alberi by Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi represent an unsurpassed tool for the design of green.
Fruit of a study lasted over twenty years, the book contains the treatment of 212 arboreal species, drawn in scale 1:100, with and without foliage, accompanied by the diagrams of the projections of shadows during the hours of the day and during the seasons, tables of seasonal colour variation of the foliage a
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April 2020
Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha
In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these “small books” were sought after, collected, and loved by Ruscha's fans and fellow artists. Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other sm
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