Category Archives: inspiration
“Destroy, and you create”: an Auto-Destructive History lesson for Jack Hroswith
Here you have my latest work, a History school book once belonging to a pupil named Jack Hroswith, that I altered using matches, a glass surface, and the pressure of my fingers – Fire being at the same time an element of destruction and creation. In an iconic scene from Truffaut’s adaptation of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit […]
fairy tales and anatomy
Last weekend I took part in a paper art workshop held at the Center for Book Art, NYC, by English paper artist Su Blackwell; her work, mostly inspired by fairy tales and folklore, old images and natural elements, visualizes a fascinating and suspended world. Sweet and light atmospheres are superbly mixed with the deep and […]
the great french films
This is the result of my new project of book alteration: I transformed a found book about the history of French cinema into a three-dimensional scene where characters and actors from different decades seem to gather for an impossible conversation. All the irrelevant images and text have been cut out from every page and this […]
moby-dick: a pop-up book
Sam Ita is a great american illustrator and paper engineer that I met at the NY Book Fair. His works are full of wonder, irony and fun and they are skillfully designed to create an involving reading moment. His first book is Moby Dick, published in 2007 by Sterling, NY
subway cutting
Yesterday I was waiting for my L train at Union square and I saw a man sticking pieces of black cut paper on the tiles. They were miniature portraits of famous and random people, beautifully crafted with a mix of chinese sensitivity and western irony. As I approached him he gave me his card: I […]
War, explained to Alan Sutton
This is a video about Brian Dettmer, an american artist that works with books and the suggestions related to such a powerful object. He carefully carves page after page creating a continue dialogue between the content , the phisical gesture and his aesthetical research. Another artist that works with the same kind of imaginary, exploring […]
destruction as beauty
Since I have been involved in the Al-Mutanabbi Project last january, I have focused my attention on the beauty of destruction in book art. I started altering discarded books adopted from charity shops or withdrawn from libraries and I realized how powerful was the action itself and how aesthetically strong could the result be. Of […]
this is where we live
A stop motion film designed by Sue Blackwell and animated by Thomas Allen. This is definitely a field worth exploring: a digital media used to communicate the poetic imaginery of books and paper.
Annar and the Moose: baby steps for a children’s book
Annar and the Moose is a project that started almost one year ago as an occasion for a collaboration with Sebastiano Longaretti (www.sebastianolongaretti.com), an italian artist I shared the studies with at the faculty of Architecture in Milano ages ago. He had a story and some drawings in mind and I wanted to be engaged […]
