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Artist's Travels
The
Artist's Travels series brings together the contributions of contemporary artists who, each in their own way, create or are the protagonists of books, drawing collections or catalogues, recounting their own personal research, rediscoveries and obsessions. Every book introduces us to a particular world, and gives us the experience of a
journey—be it real or imaginary—and its consequences unfolding through artistic elaboration. On an ever more globalised planet, travel means leaving a mark, an underlining, on the maps of our era.
2022
English edition
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The long term project of the Italian artistic duo around the trajectories of sound through the Mediterranean sea.
2022
English edition
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Fulton and Höpfner's long-term correspondence on art, landscape, and the aesthetic and political dimensions of walking.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
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The photographic works of the artist Tiane Doan na Champassak's grandmother, Alsatian married to a Vietnamese in Baden Baden in 1913.
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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A Dantean geography.
2021
English edition
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A series of artistic residencies in Iraqi Kurdistan.
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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Gabriele Basilico's previoulsy unpublished photographs in the strip-tease theaters and nightclubs of Milan in the 1970s reveal a new dimension of his oeuvre.
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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The text and photo diary of a forty-day journey on foot from Venice to L'Aquila, following the subterranean fracture where the European and African tectonic plates meet, in search of the symbolic dimension and the real effects of seismic waves.
2021
English edition
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Cemetery. Journeys to the Elephant Graveyard and Beyond compiles a selection of the visual and research materials accumulated during the development of the film and project Cemetery (2009–2019).
2020
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A study of clouds through photographs, drawings, essays, and interviews.
2020
English edition
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Artist's book.
2020
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A collection of photographs and drawings retracing the founding Californian experience of the artist.
2020
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
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A collection of 360 postcards of cities from all around the world, made
with screenshots from 3D software Apple Maps and Google Earth.
2020
bilingual edition (English / Lithuanian)
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Full transcript of Mekas's Lithuania and the Collapse
of the USSR: a five-hour-long film made up of footage from US television newscasts covering the independence of Lithuania and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
2020
English edition (texts in Inuktitut and other languages)
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Box set comprising five books, a vinyl and a supplementary dust jacket,
each highlighting different practices and transformative developments
occurring in the realm of writing and speaking today as triggered by
digital communication.
2019
English edition
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This publication documents a visual research on the perimeters of all five
boroughs of New York, featuring a photographic portfolio, a set
of maps and a series of texts.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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Both a journal and a photographic report, this publication documents Luca Vitone's travel from Italy to India, in the footsteps of
the first Roma migrations between the eighth and fourteenth centuries.
2019
English edition
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Images of the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong by Italian photographer Lele Saveri.
2019
English edition
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A travel diary / a screenplay.
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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This publication presents a comic strip made by a 20-year old Nathalie Du Pasquier in remembrance of a six months journey in Gabon. Inspired by a clipping from a Gabonese daily, the cartoon tells the colorful story of a clumsy Don Giovanni. This edition features an introductory text by the artist, the translated strip, and a facsimile of the comic book in original French version.
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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This publication presents a project by Linda Fregni Nagler about the photographic “School of Yokohama”, which emerged during the Meiji era in Japan. Over the past ten years, the artist has collected hand-colored photographs of this period representing Mount Fuji. She re-photographed them, printed them and colored them by hand, according to colorization method of that time.
2018
English edition
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Federico Lodoli and Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli went twice in Liberia to carry out a study on the war. This publication gathers their travel memoirs, interviews with Liberian warlords and a photographic reportage.
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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This publication features an unpublished series of artworks by artist Paolo Gioli based on polaroid images of etruscan funerary sculptures set in the Italian city of Volterra. The volume is supplemented by a text on Volterra by novelist D. H. Lawrence, and an essay by historian of photography Roberta Valtorta.
2017
English edition
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This artist's book collects a photo series taken in spring 2017 in Myanmar, one of the Buddhism's sacred places, where one hundred or so temples have been destroyed by a recent earthquake. Now the pagodas affected by the earthquake, covered by thin bamboo structures, have taken original and unexpected forms, hanging between architecture and art, life and destruction. This temporary condition allowed Isola to catalogue, study and also to develop a sort of appropriation.
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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This publication documents a previously unreleased video project by Canarezza & Coro inspired by poet Eugenio Montale's unusual walk across the Italy-San Marino border to receive a Literature Prize in a context of tensions between the two States. The volume also includes fragments of forty-seven poems by Eugenio Montale, modified by the two artists.
2017
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A biological investigation of a Nordic man-made beach landscape through a series of cameraless photographic registrations of the site's flora, fauna, and particles.
2017
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Los Angeles 1989 Tokyo 1991 brings together a collection of images from two of the most complex and undefinable metropolises on the face of the Earth, the social and urban form of which is ceaselessly reshaped by the minimal existence of millions of people in movement. Lombardelli's photographs are also cinematographic homages to the works of Wim Wenders and Yasujirō Ozu.
2017
English edition
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The Curious Mr. Pettena recounts various steps along a journey, through cities and wide open natural spaces, undertaken by the anarchitect Gianni Pettena at the start of the 1970s across the United States.
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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Stemming from a project dedicated to the city of Genoa and in particular to its relationship with the sea, this photographic artist's book extends the site-specific glass sculpture designed by Perrone inside Villa del Principe's Hall of the Shipwreck.
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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This publication reproduces the experimental filmmakers' notebooks from their journey in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s. Gianikian & Ricci Lucchi undertook this travel to gather the memories of the cinematographic literary and artistic Russian avant-garde of the '20s and '30s, seeking out survivors and listening to their life stories.
2017
English edition
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In this publication, artist Gianfranco Baruchello and writer Michele Mari join forces to provide descriptions of their own dreams. Baruchello's illustrations and Mari's written notes unveil oneiric worlds made of symbols, recurring images, and obsessions, and address the question: just what are dreams made of?
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
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Artist and researcher Riccardo Giacconi investigates the relationship between a range of narrative forms (puppetry, street storytellers, flyers and pamphlets) and a series of pre-political acts of revolt staged between Italy and South America. This publication documents his research project and features a series of texts, notes, archives, illustrations, and interviews.
2016
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This publication collects black and white photographs taken at apartment viewings in Berlin, London and Zürich in 2015. The images render a landscape of apartments, mostly empty, punctuated by potential buyers or renters projecting their own possible futures onto the spaces.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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Photographic companion book to the film La controfigura (“The stand-in”) by Rä di Martino: the tale of a cinema troupe in Marrakech trying to shoot the remake of The Swimmer, the 1968 film with Burt Lancaster, based on a short story of the same name by John Cheever.
2016
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Writer Emanuele Trevi and photographer Giovanna Silva recount, each in their own manner, their journey with artist Luigi Ontani in Bali at the time of the preparation of the Ogoh Ogoh carnival procession. With original illustrations by Ontani.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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Arrivederci recalls the artist's personal journey in Sardinia to explore textile craftsmanship. Favini narrates the stories of each piece of fabric he gathered and used for his new body of work—from its origin to the exhibition display. The publication is enriched with photographic documentation and texts by curators and stylist Antonio Marras.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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A Step Towards the Sea tells the relationship between the artist and Italy through a selection of installation views and video works. The accompanying DVD includes an unreleased film and a documentation on every actions carried out in Italy by Signer since the 1990s.
2016
English edition
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This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
2016
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Botanical trajectories and symbolic dimensions of Merano's palm trees (artist's book).
2016
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What language should be used to describe a place? This question is the starting point and the core question of Claudia Losi's project and namesake book, a collection of transversal contributions, from art to geography, from semiotics to psychology, which interrogates the way we perceive places and the role of our imagination in such a process.
2015
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Designed on the basis of a contemporary Baedeker, this book offers an original itinerary in the historic center of the city of Genoa. It is a city-guide that links different places and times, and that also moves from the habit of moving, investigated as a typical phenomenon of the Grand Tour—and that is the origin of the term “tourism”.
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
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A photographic account of Carsten Höller's journeys to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the purpose of a film about Fara Fara music.
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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Artist's book.
2015
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
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Artist's book dedicated to Alessandra Spranzi's beautiful eponymous series of photographic collages.
2014
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
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Artist's book based on a complex project
linking Vernasca, Ethiopia and Jamaica according to two points of view, placing certain critical moments in Italy's colonial history in relation to the symbolism of Rastafarian tradition.
2014
English edition
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Artist's book: a deconstruction of a 16 mm film shot by Haris Epaminonda in Cyprus, embarking on a new set of associations between image and subject, source and information, meaning and abstraction.
