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March 2021
Panteon n.1
Panteon (without H) is a new Italian architecture magazine, published twice a year. It is an anachronistic enterprise: anachronistic is the content, anachronistic is the product, anachronistic is its use. And actually, looking at it carefully, it has something out of time, it could be for the type of paper chosen, it could be for the large format, it could be for the skilful use of black and white, able to give even more cha
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October 2019
GRID SYSTEMS IN GRAPHIC DESIGN
A grid system is a rigid framework that is supposed to help graphic designers in the meaningful, logical and consistent organization of information on a page. It is an established tool that is used by print and web designers to create well-structured, balanced designs. Rudimentary versions of grid systems existed since the medieval times, but a group of Swiss graphic designers, mostly inspired in ideas from typographical literature started building a more rigid and coh
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November 2020
Lo Sguardo che Offende
Lo Sguardo che Offende, Il Manuale is an artist's monotype in 30 unique autographed copies, printed on cotton paper and various fabrics, and wrapped in a peculiar cover, a fabric mask, one of the characterizing elements of the project. Il Manuale is an integral and conclusive part of a work that arises from a reflection on the devices of vision and on the sci-fi possibility of the gaze to "hurt" the landscape it observes, in a hypothetical str
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April 2020
CHAPTER 3 – THE CONTROL OF IMAGES
After the first two exhibitions “Chapter 1 – The Hierarchy of Images” and “Chapter 2 – The Conflict of Images”, the trilogy ends with “Chapter 3 – The Control of Images”, presenting the works of Anouk Kruithof, Julian Röder and Jules Spinatsch.
The exhibition catalogue deals with the topic of control and surveillance, as well as with the critical observation of problematic social processes. In doing so, the exhibition takes a critical look at to how great an exte
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