The second edition of SIGNS. Contemporary Italian Graphic Design continues the work of the first edition of 2016 with the aim of introducing the general public to the profession and discipline of graphic designer as well as to the different languages, unique characteristics and orientations of some of the leading figures of visual design, always able to renew itself and dialogue with the international scene, in the footsteps of a great historical tradition. The designers and projects in this book do not represent a definitive and arbitrary selection, but rather one step of a journey tracing out a map of Italian excellence in visual design. 00Exhibition: BASE, Milan, Italy (25.03. - 03.04.2022).

Danilo Bucchi nasce a Roma nel 1978. Il talento di Danilo Bucchi è probabilmente il tratto dominante del suo profilo artistico, costituito da una severa determinazione nel radicarsi in un universo di segni che rimanda alla tradizione dell'astrazione europea delle prime avanguardie, con l'ausilio di tecniche e supporti fortemente tecnologici. In questo libro, progettato in occasione della mostra di Danilo Bucchi al MLAC, ma il cui contenuto non è concluso nell'analisi esclusiva del ciclo di lavori presentati, la forza dirompente dell'artista emerge continuamente, è il motivo scatenante, la frenesia che si riverbera fra le pagine e la grafica del testo. Testi e interviste, note e critica, dal saggio introduttivo di Giorgia Calò all'intervista impossibile di Jerome Sans, tutto testimonia la febbricitante soluzione creativa di un giovane talento della pittura contemporanea. Danilo Bucchi was born in Rome in 1978. Danilo Bucchi's talent is the dominant feature of his artistic profile constituted by a real determination of rooting himself in a universe of signs, that refers to the tradition of European abstraction of avant-gardes with the aid of techniques and supports that are strongly technological. In this book, conceived in the occasion of Danilo Bucchi's show at the MLAC, but whose content is not limited to the analysis of the series presented, the artist's shattering force emerges continually.This is the triggering theme, the frenzy that reverberates in the pages and the graphics of the text.Texts and interviews, notes and critiques, from Giorgia Calò's introductory essay to the impossible interview by Jerome Sans, it testifies to the feverish creative solution of a young talent of contemporary painting. Edited by Domenico Scudero and Giorgia Calò.

Using original sources--such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews--Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She chooses to translate the Italian concept of immaginario with the Latin imago that felicitously blends the double English translation of the word as "imagery" and "imaginary." Imago is a complex knot of collective representations of the immigrant subject, a mental production that finds concrete expression; impalpable, yet real. The "imagined immigrant" walks alongside the real one in flesh and rags.

"Assesses the current situation of Europe ten years after the adoption of the single currency. Examines the genealogy of the idea of Europe from the Greek confrontation with the Asia to the conflict between the Roman Empire and Christianity. Discusses the role of secularization in the shaping of modern Europe"--

Crepain Binst is richly illustrated and with tons of information on all projects, whether they are finished, running or planned.

Bruno Munari (1907-1998) played a pioneering role in the evolution of twentieth-century art and design, his work exerting an influence that stretched far beyond the borders of Italy. Munari described the roots of his work as his 'Futurist past', but his influences were extremely varied, also reflecting the aesthetics and sensibilities of Constructivism, Dada and Surrealism. This exhibition at the Estorick collection in London explores Munari's artistic research between 1927 and 1950, spanning the artist's Futurist phase and early investigation of the possibilities of kinetic sculpture, the immediate post-war years during which he became a leading figure of abstract painting and his subsequent experiments with projected light and installation-based work. 0Exhibition: Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, UK (19.9.-23.12.2012).

In 1798, the armies of the French Revolution tried to transform Rome from the capital of the Papal States to a Jacobin Republic. For the next two decades, Rome was the subject of power struggles between the forces of the Empire and the Papacy, while Romans endured the unsuccessful efforts of Napoleon’s best and brightest to pull the ancient city into the modern world. Against this historical backdrop, Nicassio weaves together an absorbing social, cultural, and political history of Rome and its people. Based on primary sources and incorporating two centuries of Italian, French, and international research, her work reveals what life was like for Romans in the age of Napoleon. “A remarkable book that wonderfully vivifies an understudied era in the history of Rome. . . . This book will engage anyone interested in early modern cities, the relationship between religion and daily life, and the history of the city of Rome.”—Journal of Modern History “An engaging account of Tosca’s Rome. . . . Nicassio provides a fluent introduction to her subject.”—History Today “Meticulously researched, drawing on a host of original manuscripts, memoirs, personal letters, and secondary sources, enabling [Nicassio] to bring her story to life.”—History

Featuring work by leading theorists, excursions into performative writing and texts by performance artists, The Ends of Performance illuminates the provocative intellectual ends which motivate these varied approaches to performing writing, and to writing performance.