“The fireflies: it’s up to us not to see them disappear. We, ourselves, must assume their freedom of movement,the retreat without withdrawal, the diagonal force, the ability to make particles of humanity appear,to make the indestructible desire appear. We must, ourselves … become fireflies and thus form again acommunity of desire, a community of flashes shining out, of dances in spite of all, of thoughts to transmit.”Georges Didi-HubermanSurvival of the Fireflies
BRIAN ENO. REFLECTED
TEXTS BY: Arian Eno, Tom Phillips, Marco Pierini
«What I think we are doing when we find pleasure in sex, drugs, art and religion is we are rehearsing our ability to surrender. So, this brings us, having taken a very long way round, to why I think this is what I would like to see in a church now. If you try to imagine what the effect of those pieces of work, the works by Beato Angelico, Perugino, Piero della Francesca, the effect those works must have had on the 15th or 16th century eye: that is what I’m trying to recreate. I should be humbler than I am, but I’m trying to com- pete with them in 21st century terms. I’m trying to say “this is what I think should be in churches now”» (B. Eno)
Size: 16 x 21.5 cm Pages: 56 Language: English
MARCO GASTINI
VITA E MORTE DELL’IMMAGINE. UNA STORIA DELLO SGUARDO IN OCCIDENTE
GIOVANNI CARANDENTE E LA SCULTURA MODERNA Scritti dal 1957 al 2008
EDITED BY: Antonella Pesola
TEXTS BY: Giovanni Carandente, Antonella Pesola, Assunta Porciani, Marco Tonelli
SERIES: “fireflies”; NIC: 04
For the first time this volume gathers a vast selection of Giovanni Carandente's (1920-2009) writings, who was an art histrian and critic, about modern sculpture
Size: 16 x 21,5 cm
Pages: 280
Language: Italian
CLAUDIO PARMIGGIANI. IN THE TIME OF POVERTY
AUTHOR: Massimo Recalcati
SERIES: “fireflies”; NIC: 05
«A piece has to be violent. It has to be like a punch in the stomach. Silent but hard, hard but silent, like a fire beneath the ashes, obscure, growling.» (C. Parmiggiani)
Massimo Recalcati explains the poetics of Claudio Parmiggiani, one of the major artists of the second half of XX century.
Size: 16 x 21,5 cm
Pages: 64
Language: English
ALSO AVAILABLE IN ITALIAN
BEUYS / BURRI. LA PERSISTENZA DEL VALORE
TEXTS BY: Italo Tomassoni, Joseph Beuys
COLLECTION: “fireflies”; NIC: 06
At the end of a decade full of reflections and aesthetic theories, the two artists came face to face, each affirming his independence from the art system. Now, forty years on, Tomassoni revisits the original exhibition and his contribution. The volume presents integral transposition of Joseph Beuys’ speech in Perugia, and a new text by Tommassoni accompanied by an exhaustive collection of letters and documents.
Size: 16 x 21,5 cm
Pages: 84
Language: Italian
UNIVERS. UN NEGOZIO METAFISICO
TEXTS BY: Andrea Cortellessa, Flavio Favelli, Tiziano Scarpa, Vittorio Urbani
DIALOGUE BETWEEN: Antonio Grulli, Luca Lo Pinto
SERIES: “le lucciole”; NIC: 01
This is a book that talks about Favelli's experience, about a metaphysical shop, a "small shop" launched by the artist in Venice, in Fondamenta Sant’Anna (Castello 944, zona Arsenale), in parallel with vernissage of the Venice Biennale.
Size: 13 x 17,7 cm
Pages: 68
Language: Italian
QUILTING
AUTHOR: Sergio Lombardo
EDITED BY: Simone Zacchini
TEXTS BY: Vincenzo Napolano, Simone Zacchini; con un'INTERVISTA A Sergio Lombardo di Simone Zacchini
SERIES: “le lucciole”; NIC: 02
In his last years, Sergio Lomardo has focused his research on the Stochastic Painting, a method that creates works of art by random algorithms elaborated by the artist.
Size: 13 x 17,7 cm
Pages: 44
Language: Italian