Alessandro Ciccarelli, Leonardo Zaccone, Il lavoro del musicista (In accordo con Paul Éluard), 2023

In the early 1940s, Paul Éluard wrote two short poems in seven chapters, “Le travail du poète” and “Le travail du peintre” dedicated to Pablo Picasso, a fraternal friend.
Before being published at the tail end of “Poésie ininterrompue,” the two produced together a rare small volume with Éluard’s poems and some of Picasso’s sketches.
This was the inspiration that guided Leonardo Zaccone, a poet and musician, and Alessandro Ciccarelli, a photographer and musician, in creating the fanzine.
The melatophonic notebook “The Musician’s Work”, in which graphic words and elusive images duet, suggesting an intimate dimension of being a musician, is the outcome of their musical collaboration.