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May 2020
NEW YORK
Giacomo Brunelli stalks the streets of New York with his old film camera, often for ten hours a day, looking for characters and details that are adrift in time.
His work has an air of nostalgia to it, and a film noir sensibility. The images are dark, shadowy, moody and a bit menacing โ as if weโre looking through the eyes of a night detective, a voyeur or a stalker.
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September 2023
Every Day is a New Day (2024 Calendar)
A tear-off calendar for 2024 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Every day is a new day!
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October 2023
Dysphoria mundi
"Since my desire to live outside the normative prescriptions of the hetero-patriarchal binary society has been considered a clinical pathology called 'gender dysphoria', it seemed interesting to me to think of the current world situation as a generalised dysphoria". "Dysphoria Mundi" is a diary of planetary transition that here takes the form of a mutant text, made up of non-fiction, philosophy, poetry and autofiction. Preciado, sick with Covid and locked up in his flat, draws on all genres to narrate a world
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November 2023
Esso: Shadows Oozing Gold
The volume was published for the Carloni-Franceschetti joint exhibition Esso: Shadows Oozing Gold, at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb, on display from the 27th of May to the 2nd of July 2022. The showโs title takes its name from a cycle of works that the two artists had been developing from 2017. This series investigates, through temporal short-circuits bridging current events with Italyโs collective memory, the various forms in which fascism takes roo
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