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January 2020
LA CORNICE – STORIE, TEORIE, TESTI
At a time when historical avant-gardes are starting to question it deeply, the frame has become a subject of great interest to philosophers, art historians and semiologists. The quintessential amphibian device, a mediation tool that isolates the image from the real space, not being assimilated with either despite relating to both, the frame is a threshold: it leads us into a realm where other laws are in force compared to those of everyday life. The
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January 2021
Mukayu
"An empty room will be filled with light by its emptiness". This is how the concept of "Mukayu" is defined by the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi. The recent, poetic and very intimate photographic work of Paul Cupido, made in Japan, is inspired by this concept of "Mukayu", which also refers to "non-existence", to "things as they are". Mukayu ย fits into the larger framework of the philosophical concept of โMuโ, a source of inspiration for Paul Cupido since his first artist's bookย Searching for Mu . Mu co
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February 2021
Lewis Baltz
Lewis Baltz (Newport Beach, California, 1945 - Paris, 2014) is one of the most important photographers of the second half of the 20th century. Traditionally, his work has been associated with the generation of photographers who came together for the New Topographical exhibition, who questioned the concept of landscape as beautiful, existential and almost sacred, and showed it as it really was, following the almost always unfortunate human intervention. Baltz saw the landscape as an urbanized, structured and popul
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March 2021
Atlante
The Atlante project by Luigi Ghirri is a photographic reading essay, of great value, made in 1973 on a geographical atlas, in whose illustrated pages the author has identified "the place where all the signs of the earth, from natural ones to built by man, they are represented: mountains, lakes, pyramids, oceans, cities, villages, stars, sunโ. The system of signs adopted by an atlas is universally accepted and rests on conventions that do not admit any inter
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October 2022
JACK: una biografia illustrata
JACK: una biografia illustrata is the story, also in pictures, of Jack Nicholson's reckless life through the people and events that determined his identity. An absurd and incredible gallery of characters and stories that page after page turn out to be linked together by the histrionic Jack, the actor who gave us timeless masterpieces such as Easy Rider, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Shining. A book that is a journey through
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