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March 2021

Sinfonia Meccanica

Book and cassette tape released by Sร˜VN Records. The audio tracks were composed with sounds sampled from the same machines used to produce the book. Includes streaming and digital download. Available in neon yellow and neon red.
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March 2020

PINO PASCALI – FOTOGRAFIE

In 1965, Pino Pascali โ€“ working for a long time for Lodolofilm graphic and advertising activity โ€“ starts a journey between Naples, Capri and Ischia to make his first photographic reportage, devoted to the production of a commercial for Cirio. The aim of the research was to highlight the peculiarities of the Neapolitan tradition within an exuberant emotional connotation. The journey becomes a real survey of the urban and the harbour landscape, not simply a collection of pic
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April 2020

CONVERSAZIONI CON COLIN WARD

With a peculiar anarchist eye Colin Ward, for over half a century, has looked at society and sought, in the interstices, in the cracks, in the spaces left free by the institutions, the expressions of popular resistance, the persistent supportive creativity, the alternative use of space and resources. Alternative use to hierarchical and bureaucratic models, to welfare and commodification. Community and tendentially egalitarian and libertarian use, in which his eye sees the seed of a r
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January 2020

INSIDE THE WHITE CUBE – L’IDEOLOGIA DELLO SPAZIO ESPOSITIVO

There was once the easel painting with a solid frame and a complete perspective system in which a illusion of reality was embedded. Then the Impressionist landscapes appeared on the horizon and began to give instructions to viewers as to where they must stand, the right distance for observation and the attitude to be adopted. But this was not the end. The huge canvases of the Abstract Expressionists, fraught with vital tension, expanded still fur
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October 2024

VERNASCACADABRA

VERNASCACADABRA is a series of compositions for ocarina as a part of an artistic journey through the history of music routes that Invernomuto has been carrying out for years, starting from the sound and the imagery it generates. The ocarina is a wind instrument made of terracotta, whose name derives from its shape, which resembles a small headless goose ("oca" in italian). It is claimed that the instrument was invented in Budrio, near Bologna, around the mid-
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September 2020

Turistica

The German noun Heimat has no exact equivalent in English. It is an oblique reference to the place where you were born, where you feel at home. It is a sort of emotional place where you belong, rather than any geographical space. Carlo Rusca's work may be an example of Heimat. Just may. Because he calls it Turistica. Which is something else, something with other implications. Yet his refined black and white photographs, the detai
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