Il Bel Paese

By Stefano de Luigi

- Beautifully presented with text printed in silver on black paper

De Luigi's images restore the landscape's semantic value. The Italian landscape is a complex one, subject to the continuous superimposition of new signs. Yet in some ways, it is also a resistant landscape. While on the one hand, in fact, these signs - mostly similar and very much the offspring of consumer society and mass tourism - make Italy alternately a commodified trophy to be exhibited or "one anonymous, unfriendly, messy suburb," on the other hand, they are sometimes grafted onto different realities - the upshot once again of those local identities that have long characterized the various areas of the peninsula - giving rise to genuine short circuits of meaning and vision where, in a bizarre potpourri, the contemporary and the ancient, the beautiful and the ugly, the rare and the banal, the serial and the unique all dialog with one another.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CD18LDGW
• ISBN13: 9791280978059
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: L'Artiere
• Length: 80 Pages