
Tombola
- Publisher
- Contrasto
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 9788869659454
- Specifications
- Cloth-bound hardback with a board
28 x 28 cm
192 pages
90 photographs in black and white
90 original plates
Texts by Marino Niola and Eduardo Cicelyn
With a large double-sided board
A singular volume that lets us look at the work of two artists and at the sense of a game that goes on for ever. It starts, of course, at number one, Italy. Then two, the little girl; then three, the cat; four, the pig; and so on to the last, fear. These are the ninety numbers of the tombola seen through the definitions of the Neapolitan Smorfia, the dream book from which it derives. That is the starting point chosen by Antonio Biasiucci, among the most significant Italian artists of our time, whose black-and-white photography — strong, dense and unmistakable in style — has become a hallmark of his research. His images are matched with numbers drawn for the occasion by Mimmo Paladino, who signs this unique work with him; it unfolds among soft archetypal meanings and visionary suggestions and is enriched by two texts, Numeri by Marino Niola and Le tavole di Alice by Eduardo Cicelyn. The homage to Naples and to the historical memory of the city is held in these ninety images, each with its intimate, deep reference to the number that stands for it and to the meaning tradition gives it. The volume comes with a large double-sided board.