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Studiolo Installation by Matteo Ghidoni – Salottobuono
Lightweight carrier bag Editions by P A X {Venezia}
Bookcloud curated by Noemi Biasetton
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BookBiennale is an observatory, simultaneously winking at the Venice Biennale and colliding with its surface, creating its own identity.
BookBiennale is a wave coming out of the artistic beating heart of the city, moving and reverberating independently, like sound and rhythm in a broad reflective spectrum.
BookBiennale is a parallel dimension based in Venice, made in Venice, (inter)acting with fantasies and realities from all around the world.
BookBiennale is a temporary research space, rooted in water, thus fluid and open.
Wait, books in a lagoon?
Yes, it’s fine, the tide only rises for a few hours at a time.
BookBiennale is a question we either pose or try to answer, a crisp blank page, an interview, a vaporetto ride in the heat wave, a bookmark, a phone number you might want to call, a train ticket, a friend of a friend of a friend who has heard about it, a bear, a workshop, an artist’s book, a way to enrich one’s Biennale experience, or to escape from it, a bookshop you have probably spent some time in, or have peered into while passing by, a tool to look at what it means or doesn’t mean to be a publisher today, a project starting from May 2019.
BookBiennale is an observatory, simultaneously winking at the Venice Biennale and colliding with its surface, creating its own identity.
BookBiennale is a wave coming out of the artistic beating heart of the city, moving and reverberating independently, like sound and rhythm in a broad reflective spectrum.
BookBiennale is a parallel dimension based in Venice, made in Venice, (inter)acting with fantasies and realities from all around the world.
BookBiennale is a temporary research space, rooted in water, thus fluid and open.
Wait, books in a lagoon?
Yes, it’s fine, the tide only rises for a few hours at a time.
BookBiennale is a question we either pose or try to answer, a crisp blank page, an interview, a vaporetto ride in the heat wave, a bookmark, a phone number you might want to call, a train ticket, a friend of a friend of a friend who has heard about it, a bear, a workshop, an artist’s book, a way to enrich one’s Biennale experience, or to escape from it, a bookshop you have probably spent some time in, or have peered into while passing by, a tool to look at what it means or doesn’t mean to be a publisher today, a project starting from May 2019.
Studiolo
The 2022 edition of BookBiennale will take place around and through Studiolo: a project conceived by Matteo Ghidoni – Salottobuono, the first episode of the transition from paper to reality of Cabins, a theoretical-critical reflection carried out by Ghidoni on the value of being in the world and on primary human needs. The structure will host a series of meetings with the aim of bringing together personalities who gravitate around the world of art, architecture and publishing. Studiolo is made up of two crossing walls, a parasitic structure yet with its own private entrance; it fits into the inner courtyard of bruno’s ecosystem by breaking it down into four ‘scenes’ and thus triggering two-way visual relationships. The name of the project alludes to the Renaissance idea of a place of retreat, study and sedimentation of individual obsessions. A showcase divided into four parts, each of which is (not necessarily) destined for a specific function: a worktop, a shower, a sink and a seat. Studiolo questions the physical and semantic limits between inside and outside, between intimate and exhibited, between finished and unfinished, between isolation and solitude.
“Studiolo is the first attempt to translate minimal living units from paper into reality: Cabins,” says Matteo Ghidoni, “which, by optimising the available resources, works on subtraction, exploring the possibilities of a spartan, incomplete life, removing the superfluous and leaving the bare structure on view to see how it may be transformed by use during these months of exhibition. Grafting onto the inside of bruno, Studiolo thus becomes a stage that will come alive with interviews, readings, podcasts and performances. A multifunctional structure: a house to live in, a refuge to be preserved, an experience to be lived, a place to exchange ideas, a place to create new projects, a place to discuss, a place to let your imagination run wild, a place to sunbathe, a place to cool off, a place to laze around.
The 2022 edition of BookBiennale will take place around and through Studiolo: a project conceived by Matteo Ghidoni – Salottobuono, the first episode of the transition from paper to reality of Cabins, a theoretical-critical reflection carried out by Ghidoni on the value of being in the world and on primary human needs. The structure will host a series of meetings with the aim of bringing together personalities who gravitate around the world of art, architecture and publishing. Studiolo is made up of two crossing walls, a parasitic structure yet with its own private entrance; it fits into the inner courtyard of bruno’s ecosystem by breaking it down into four ‘scenes’ and thus triggering two-way visual relationships. The name of the project alludes to the Renaissance idea of a place of retreat, study and sedimentation of individual obsessions. A showcase divided into four parts, each of which is (not necessarily) destined for a specific function: a worktop, a shower, a sink and a seat. Studiolo questions the physical and semantic limits between inside and outside, between intimate and exhibited, between finished and unfinished, between isolation and solitude.
“Studiolo is the first attempt to translate minimal living units from paper into reality: Cabins,” says Matteo Ghidoni, “which, by optimising the available resources, works on subtraction, exploring the possibilities of a spartan, incomplete life, removing the superfluous and leaving the bare structure on view to see how it may be transformed by use during these months of exhibition. Grafting onto the inside of bruno, Studiolo thus becomes a stage that will come alive with interviews, readings, podcasts and performances. A multifunctional structure: a house to live in, a refuge to be preserved, an experience to be lived, a place to exchange ideas, a place to create new projects, a place to discuss, a place to let your imagination run wild, a place to sunbathe, a place to cool off, a place to laze around.
Bookcloud
Bookcloud. Notes on an Experimental Project for the Future of Publishing Over the past three decades, the field of design has experienced a growing interest in the world of theory, which is manifested daily through the expansion of its bibliography and its increasing openness to the universe of interdisciplinary literature. This renewed attention offers us two equally enticing possibilities. On one hand, it allows us to explore the world of design with a quantity of texts never before recorded, enabling us to re-trace the very boundaries of research and application within this field. On the other, this vastness of publications and theories opens up an important space for critical dialogue with the texts around us, articulated by a series of questions with respect to the form and content of the pages we leaf through every day to read, study or research.
In light of these premises was born Bookcloud, a project that explores the relationship between the contemporary design scenario and literature through five interviews with researchers from the fields of design, performing arts, and philosophy.
Bookcloud. Notes on an Experimental Project for the Future of Publishing Over the past three decades, the field of design has experienced a growing interest in the world of theory, which is manifested daily through the expansion of its bibliography and its increasing openness to the universe of interdisciplinary literature. This renewed attention offers us two equally enticing possibilities. On one hand, it allows us to explore the world of design with a quantity of texts never before recorded, enabling us to re-trace the very boundaries of research and application within this field. On the other, this vastness of publications and theories opens up an important space for critical dialogue with the texts around us, articulated by a series of questions with respect to the form and content of the pages we leaf through every day to read, study or research.
In light of these premises was born Bookcloud, a project that explores the relationship between the contemporary design scenario and literature through five interviews with researchers from the fields of design, performing arts, and philosophy.
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