
La città invisibile
- Publisher
- Contrasto
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN
- 9788869653391
- Specifications
- Cloth-bound hardback
28 x 26 cm
112 pages
48 pictures in black and white
Text by Francine Prose
Essay by Ludovico Pratesi
Urban space, seen and revisited by Irene Kung, becomes different, silent and motionless: we recognise the monuments, extracts from the memory of cities, yet they are immersed in another reality. Rome, New York, London, Madrid, Boston, Milan, Beijing are magical places full of enigmatic presence: the Torre Velasca and the Duomo in Milan, the Empire State Building in New York, Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, bathed in an almost fairy-tale atmosphere. "To stop in order to see, feel, think and dream. Emptiness, the darkness around the subject, matters more than the subject itself. Today there is too much everywhere, and I concentrate on taking away and creating voids: emptiness as a way of giving time a dimension."