Artist Books as Environments: Six Italian Artists on Their Practice
An Artribune feature presents six Italian artists discussing their artist books as environments, pages, and therapeutic tools. Rossella Poidomani's 'Segni umidi' uses plastic buried ten years ago and a kitchen-inspired angular form to explore body, nature, and death. Francesca Baglieri's 'Pagine in scatola' replaces paper pages with marble parallelepipeds, revealing stone veins as writing. Giuseppe Mendolia and Laura Cantale's 'In fede' appropriates conventional imperatives to provoke irony and discomfort, with plans to become an evolving archive. Silvia Muscolino's diary-based works, including 'Cecità' inspired by Saramago, use sound and emotion to reconstruct mental worlds. Giuseppe La Tona's 'Tutto è in conflitto, in discussione, è precario' is a sculpture conceptually an artist book, with an encyclopedic dictionary featuring a mirror under 'assurdità' reading 'TU'. The article was published in February 2023 on Artribune.
Key facts
- Feature on six Italian artists and their artist books.
- Rossella Poidomani's 'Segni umidi' uses plastic buried for ten years.
- Francesca Baglieri's 'Pagine in scatola' uses marble instead of paper pages.
- Giuseppe Mendolia and Laura Cantale's 'In fede' appropriates conventional imperatives.
- Silvia Muscolino's 'Cecità' was inspired by Saramago's novel.
- Giuseppe La Tona's work is a sculpture conceptually an artist book.
- La Tona's dictionary includes a mirror under 'assurdità'.
- Article published on Artribune in February 2023.
Entities
Artists
- Rossella Poidomani
- Francesca Baglieri
- Giuseppe Mendolia
- Laura Cantale
- Silvia Muscolino
- Giuseppe La Tona
Institutions
- Artribune
- MOc
Locations
- Palermo
- Catania
- Italy