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April 2020

TREBISONDA OR SONIA BALASSANIAN IN THE TIME OF FOXES

Trebisonda or Sonia Balassanian in the time of the foxes is a book made by one artist about-for-to another. It takes its subject, Sonia Balassanian both as its point of arrival and departure. Rather than isolating or defining Sonia or her work, the book attempts instead to connect her to the world from which her life and ideas emerge. Sonia Balassanian is artist and poet, born in Iran in 1942. She lives and works in New
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January 2020

SCIENZA DELLE IMMAGINI – ICONOLOGIA, CULTURA VISUALE ED ESTETICA DEI MEDIA

While the advent of the digital era and the rapid evolution of technology have led to major change in the coordinates of the visible world and the relationship between word and image, experience and representation, new research methods have become necessary to explore the reasons behind the increasingly extensive production and circulation of images. One of the founding fathers of this vast field of study that has established itself on an international level as vis
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May 2020

PAUL’S BOOK

Collier Schorr met Paul Hameline, a young French artist and model, in New York in 2015. A friend of friend, he came to her home for a โ€˜go-seeโ€™, which is when a photographer gets to see how a model looks in front of the camera. Paulโ€™s family lives in the Marais section of Paris around the corner from the hotel Collier stays at while in Paris, so they began to meet and to make a p
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June 2020

I DIMEZZATI

The halves are men and women in half. There are the last humans clinging to the slopes of the Adamello, to defend the trees that were there before. There is Eleonora who has been looking for her mother for 35 years. And Elisa, born hearing to deaf parents. There are appellants, who only have a voice and a phone number left. There is the story of a resigned man, in search of his fellow men and
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May 2020

INTRODUZIONE A ABY WARBURG

Aby Warburg was a researcher of Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Leonardo, Dรผrer and Rembrandt, but also of mythology and astrology, and he has linked his fame to the Institute he founded in Hamburg, to the extraordinary Library and to his eccentric Mnemosyne project, the Atlas of Memory . Claudia Cleri Via focuses on the most significant aspects of her intellectual journey. In the historical-artistic panorama between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Warburg has gained int
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January 2021

Berlin Pictures

Steinmetz has made photographs from many different parts of the world and though most of his work is exemplified by his work in America, Italy and Paris have also provided a backdrop for his photographic journeys. Mark is consistent in his ability to read the terrain with humble and adept inquiry and this consistency is manifest in his books, which demarcate whichever locality he hones in on. This is of particular interest when he tur
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