
Gibellina 1968: Otto minuti dopo le tre
- Publisher
- Seipersei
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9788894653380
- Specifications
- Size: 12.5 x 25 cm
Dust jacket: on Arena White Smooth 350gsm, print 1/1 black
Cover: 2 folded sheets on Materica Terra Rossa 250gsm, print 1/1 black
Interior: 80 pages on Arena White Rough 170gsm, print 4/4 colour
Binding: thread-sewn paperback with exposed spine
Italian / English text
The author explores the generational disconnect of the new town and, through it, the lost memories of old Gibellina. With the weight of history on their shoulders, it is now the task of the new generation to carry the story of a home they never knew. For this book, the fragmentation of memory is evident in the archive images that Iannello projects onto the walls of the Grande Cretto. Here, and in these photographs, the lives of the past merge with the arid stone weave of the present. In these images Iannello depicts the streets, daily life and faces of Gibellina before the earthquake. A nostalgic image is born of an idealised town that, in the author's photographs, is crumbling together with the walls of Burri's Cretto.