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March 2020
ARE YOU HAPPY?
During his residency at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome, the photographer Göran Gnaudschun (b. 1971, lives and works in Potsdam, Germany) avoided the postcard-perfect Rome that attracts millions of tourists. For the series Are You Happy? the artist instead trained his lens on the Eternal City’s eastern periphery and its residents. They live in cramped conditions, in tenements surrounded by brownfields. Only a stone’s throw away, the ancient city wall sep
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April 2020
COLORE INFERNO
Colore inferno Artisti spezzati dalla Grande Guerra speaks and fantasizes about various artists who died during the First World War: Umberto Boccioni, Antonio Sant’Elia, August Macke, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Louis Pergaud, Saki, Mata Hari, Luciano Serra, Franz Marc, with the language of sequential images.
The volume contains nine stories where Cecilia Valagussa and Ariel Macchi tell the unfortunate and allegorical events of each artist, whom, for various reasons, participated in the First World W
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April 2020
NÉ OBBEDIRE NÉ COMANDARE
This revolutionary declaration precedes by almost 2500 years the historical appearance of anarchism, which built on its philosophy of life precisely on the refusal to command and obey. The original approach of this libertarian lexicon is precisely to approach the anarchist idea in an absolutely non-canonical way, or through keywords that apparently have nothing to do with a political ideology, but rather refer to an existential perspective. What is exposed here is in fact a pra
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April 2020
I SEEM TO LIVE. THE NEW YORK DIARIES, 1950–2011. VOL 1
I Seem to Live. The New York Diaries, 1950–2011 is Jonas Mekas’s key literary work. The first volume of this magnum opus, covering the period from 1950-69, appears posthumously one year after his death. It stands on an equal footing with his cinematic oeuvre, which he initially developed together with his brother Adolfas after their arrival in New York. In 1954, the two brothers founded Film Culture magazine, and in 1958 Jonas began writing a weekly col
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