This book aims to be one of the many possible mosaics of Italian cooking of 20th century, in which cultural and gastronomic objects and subjects are built on a tradition rich in ideas and sometimes meagre in means.
A really giant drawing and colouring book
Verbale scritto is a collection of some short texts by Munari, taken from many of hs books.
From the aphorisms to the Japanese haiku, Munari’s verbal inventions create sparkles in every direction and about many subjects: from art to design, to common non-usable thing to everyday objects.
In 1949 Munari designs for the first time a series of “libri illeggibili” (illegible books), which abandon textual communication in behalf of aesthetic function only.
Trademarks and “legendary” objects of the recent Italian history, that created the “visual conscience” of Italy: from the Apecar to the Bacio Perugina, from the Gazzetta dello Sport to the TG1 news theme, each object is presented through a short and light text by an author each time different and an illustration inspired to the object by Ale + Ale.
First published by Scheiwiller in 1961 the Milanese master’s historic “Theorems on art” is added to the Block notes series, conceived and directed for us by Bruno Munari. The book includes a sharp and amusing collection of brief considerations about art which still make us smile and reflect today.
Floating between a mixture of flat drawings and black and white photographs, Alice’s story takes place among shadow games, space illusions and artistic allusions that re-create in a personal way the literary references of Lewis Carroll’s novel.
Thanks to its strength and the exceptional timelessness of the pictures, the book has now become a cult and a reference point in children's publishing.
In a clouded setting filled with mist, Anthony McCall’s projections create a three-dimensional illusion through abstract shapes that gradually expand, contract, and stroke the space around them like ephemeral architectures. Solid light membranes from above create in fact immaterial spaces, which can be seen only thanks to the movements of the mist.
Space, map, limit, history, passage, sieve, metaphor: skin contains in itself many features and functions; it is the meeting point for physical and psychological phenomenons, the edge between the inside and the outside of a person.
From surgery to acupuncture, to body art, to ritual practices like tattoos, skin is the mark of our passage in the world, of its meanings and vestiges.