Author: Mauro Bubbico, Giuliano Chimenti, Francesco Piarulli, Ivan Abbattista
Publisher: Antezza
Category: Art and Photography
“The City of Sassi, the capital of peasant culture. The question we ask ourselves today concerns the intangibility of this identity in the light of a new century and the sweeping technological innovations in information and communication. The crisis of localism seems evident if we consider a negative answer to this question. This book was conceived and designed by Mauro Bubbico together with a group of young graphic designers — Giuliano Chimenti, Francesco Piarulli, Ivan Abbattista. Its pages flow with iconic images placed on the same temporal plane — decontextualised and reframed, compared diachronically through ironic or critical analogies of signs, of memories drawn together to be read not merely as icons. These are images that evoke stories each person has layered in their mind, and the printed page once again becomes a permanent object and place for reading and reflection.” From the preface by Mario Cresci.