Witty kiwi books (163 risultati)

Brossura. Condizione: new. English Text.Torino, 2021; paperback, pp. 96, col. ill., cm 11x19. They say that this place, where you're standing now, used to be under the sea. Then the water receded and left the clay behind. A mountain of clay. And there were sandy marshes, with plants and trees. A park overlooking the valley. Now the sky is black and the smoke from the kilns covers everything. Millions of bricks take shape. A hundred years ago the kiln workers' village grew up around the chimneys. This is Hell Valley. And this is my home.Only one road leads here, and in such an isolated spot it's difficult to believe that we are in Rome, the city that is growing using our bricks. But the dome of St Peter's is always there to remind us. You can see it from Mount Ciocci, and on summer nights it shines bright in the moonlight. Make a wish and throw a stone - if you hit it, your wish will come true.Riccardo Veschi is not like the others. To his workers, he's almost a father. Not one of the bosses, but a man worthy of respect. Like the work, which wears out your hands and sometimes leaves you breathless. Lenin, in one of his speeches, spoke about the valley as a model of communal life and called it 'Little Russia'. But maybe that's a myth. I can't really believe that Lenin, with everything he had to do.Babies are born. They grow, hanging around their mother's necks, suckling milk and clay. It's so hot near the kilns. I can still remember the smell, the rich sour taste in my mouth, and the sweat.Then, one by one, the chimneys stop smoking. Many people leave. And one day the Council bulldozers arrive. My father shouts, then he weeps while the houses of the village come down as if they're being bombed. In their place they give us new flats to rent, in the Council blocks. Someone calls them 'cardboard boxes', as if a box could have twelve stories. But I still have a brick from the room I was born in.Less than 40 years have passed, and the bulldozers are back again, right in front of the church hall. This time it's for the big new shopping centre: 15,600 square metres of glass, sliding doors, shelves. A hypermarket, 58 shops, 10 restaurants and a bookstore. There's even a gym.Today a wisp of smoke still rises from the heart of the old village. A bakery makes dozens of loaves of warm crusty bread. But fresh bread, as we all know, quickly becomes hard and inedible. Libro.…

Brossura. Condizione: new. English Text.Torino, 2023; paperback, pp. 50, col. plates, cm 24x32. Alta(e)r was born from the will to make the portrait of people questioning their gender and their relationship to identity. On this path, my friends and my encounters have gradually turned into a transformed into a sensitive archive intended to (re)give importance to the fluidity of bodies the fluidity of bodies and their stories. The photographic image is thus transformed into an artetact and an object of memory.This proposal temporarily crystallizes the stories in margin, locates them, makes them live again. It rewrites history, makes memories, fills in the gaps, creating new narratives, as well as new narratives, as well as the impulse to think alternative futures. It is a fiction to think elsewhere, to repair itself, to convene other imaginary.These numerous portraits are confronted with fragments of landscape insolated on on photosensitive paper that stand here like lost memories that could have taken place which could have taken place anywhere in time. The luminogram offers a creative framework insofar as it also lends itself to deconstruction and and abandonment, which allows the intertwining of these contradictory conditions of creativity to generate new and spontaneous forms of representation.Alta(e)r is an attempt to consider each piece of life as an archive that we create now. archive that we create now. In this project, bodies are seen as architecture that builds the limit of an intangible reality, which always disappears. always disappearing. Alter represents the mutation of bodies and minds, the reflection of ourselves in others. Altar is a mystical place of illumination and of sacrifice. The two blend together to create Alta(e)r. A sensitive and immersive map that welcomes deviance as something sacred, touched by the light. Libro.…

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Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Cartonato. Condizione: new. Torino, 2021; cartonato, pp. 64, ill. col., tavv. col., cm 21x27. Libro.

Brossura. Condizione: new. Torino, 2026; paperback. Libro.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: NEW.

Brossura. Condizione: new. English Text.Torino, 2023; paperback, pp. 150, b/w plates, cm 17x20,5. Libro.

Brossura. Condizione: new. English Text. Torino, 2022; paperback, pp. 128, b/w and col. ill., cm 21x28. The birth of this second book by Angelo Vignali happened when he approached the enormous archive of photographs and drawings his father produced throughout his life. Vignali, whose work is often systematic, decided to take another path and went for a very personal matter. He discovered 313 black and white cut-out vintage prints of his father fingers. While working with these photographs and bringing back the presence of his father's hand, Vignali saw the astonishing similarity with his own hands. The photographic and performative book 'How to raise a hand' is mysterious, touching and funny at the same time. The author raises questions like: What if family is more similar to each other than we ever could imagine? What if our bond with who is no more with us, is very substantial? Do those who are no longer alive, keep on living within us? The best result in making art is when you totally surprise yourself and others with the result of it. And that's exactly what happened to Vignali, to me and hopefully to you, seeing this raw and intimate experiment. The past and the future of life go hand in hand in this finger licking good book. Libro.…

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Rilegato. Condizione: new. English Text.Torino, 2018; bound, pp. 72, col. plates. Libro.

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Rilegato. Condizione: new. Torino, 2022; ril., pp. 104, ill. Libro.

Brossura. Condizione: new. Limited edition of 350 copies.Design by Eric Dahl Palmér & Dada.English Text.Torino, 2022; paperback, pp. 108, ill., cm 23x30. After living for several years in the chaos of influences that is New York, the visual artist Satoshi Tsuchiyama realized that it is Israel that is the world's hub for contemporary dance. His experiences of working with both dance and Jewish artefacts fused together. Questions arose in his head: Since the political situation has long been unstable in this religiously and culturally rich region, what kind of normal everyday life can be found there? What colours and scents does a country like this retain, and how do the dancers appear and move under the influence of an environment like this? He decided to go there to witness the extraordinary on a daily basis.During his four visits to Israel and Palestine in 2017-19, he wandered in scorching sand and graffiti-filled streets, climbed to the collapsing top floor of the art school. He followed the desires of his eyes. The dancers he met came from all over the world, but they seemed to share the same mood, the same force that oozed out of the ground. And one and the same aura accompanied their bodies in a common direction. He avoided all the areas at high risk of terror, but death and the random character of life were present wherever he went. The energy of the inhabitants to survive was strong, and he experienced a singular beauty in this raw, tough and vulnerable ordeal of perseverance and adaptation. Libro.…

Brossura. Condizione: new. English Text.Torino, 2021; paperback, pp. 136, b/w ill., b/w plates, cm 24x30. Meiwo is a publication that combine a book by the visual artist Jacopo Benassi and a music cassette from the band Larsen.Winner of the Ear/eye award 2021. Libro.

Brossura. Condizione: new. Torino, 2021; br., pp. 144. Libro.

Rilegato. Condizione: new. English Text.Torino, 2018; bound, pp. 65, ill., b/w and col. plates, cm 23x30. Libro.

Hardback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Cartonato in tela. Condizione: new. Texts by Jeremy Hutchison.Design by Giulia Boccarossa.English Text.Torino, 2022; hardbound, pp. 96, ill., col. plates, cm 23x28. There is only one photograph of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, the founder of the Mouride sect of Islam. He is standing beside a wooden wall, wearing a white kaftan. It is sunny: he squints into the light. And although his face is partially concealed, his eyes are visible. He stares directly into the camera this portrait is probably the most reproduced image in Senegal. Orginally taken in 1917, it is replicated across every imaginable surface in the country.This process of continual reproduction has seen Amadou Bamba's portrait transform from a representation into an icon;- from the prosaic to the sublime - is the central theme of Dani Pujalte's project. Initially tracing the passage of Bamba's image across the everyday surfaces of Senegal, his photographic inquiry expands to document a broader theme: the ongoing dialogue between commerce and faith, material culture and Sufi mysticism. Libro. …

Hardback. Condizione: New.

Brossura. Condizione: new. Torino, 2026; paperback. Libro.

Condizione: new.

Condizione: new.