Art-book: LINES COMPLEX BEINGS 106 pages illustrated
with drawings, b/w photographs and artist’s texts; cm 23 x 29,
in Italian. Editrice d’Arte Gorlini Milan 1974. (€ 250,00
+ shipping)
The art-book LINEE,COMPLESSI, ESSERE, is a lively artwork that undercuts
the stereotype of abstract project development in favor of an individual
making on the part of a subject who lives all the aspects of her own
time, exposing its fragility, unease, impotence, frustration in her
own artistic expression. An artistic and historical document situated
in thecomplexity of the 1970s.
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1997
I WOULD LIKE TO MEET THE WORLD'S HEART essay
by critic G. Longoni with a brief text by the artist. In Italian/English/French.
46 pages, 12 colour images with poems, cm 17 x 28; Edizioni d’Arte,
Milan 1997.
The paintings and volume of Vorrei incontrare il cuore del mondo originated
from a chance visit to Theresienstadt (a small city north of Prague)
and from a trip to Palestine. In the book the artist’s thoughts
accompany the paintings reproduced and re-used from a children’s
workshop.
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2001
OTHER COLORS OUR
LIFE “Many are the things that are terrible. None is more terrible than Man”, essay by critic G. Longoni. In Italian/English, 102 pages, 23 colour images,
cm 16 x 23; Edizioni d’Arte, Milan 2001.
In “ [...] Others Colour Our Life, twenty-three panels show and visualize a subjectivity that is obstinatelòy rooted in our world, an interior nature that entrusts the task of evoking a passage to signs and the many variations of their rythm; two extremely different temporal worlds are told here: the one inaugurated by the auroral thought as put forward by Aletheia, who places Being in the “Care”; and the one opened by “calculating reason”, which says that Being is an infinite manipulation of the Existing and is manifested in the enormous means of Techne […].”
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2002
LIBERA - Fragment of a path presentation by G. Longoni; texts by E. Fiorani, L. Giudici, Janus, R. Loda, P. Restany. Text Italian/English, 74 pagine, 36 colour images, cm 16 x 23, Lupetti Editore, Milan 2002.
A quick overview from the sculptures of the 1970s to the paintings after 2000.
2006
Art-book ATLAS OF THE WORLD - the map of power text by critic G. Longoni with a piece by the artist. 80 pages,
74 colour images, cm 19 x 28. Lupetti Editore, Milan 2006.
ATLANTE DEL MONDO 2004 an acrylic painting on newspaper sheets,
m 5 x 3,4, later printed digitally on pvc. This painting, for
its content, was easily transposed into book format and thus a “true atlas” originated, complete with continents, maps, etc….
An atlas however where the desire for sea and sky encounters dissonant
voices inhabiting the world and making it uneasy. read>>
2007
Art-book RHUMA Eritis Sicut Dei critics’ texts by L. Vergine, E. Fiorani, L. Giudici, G. Longoni, R. Moratto and a piece by the artist. In Italian/English, 96 pages, Reproduction of 212 squares, with the corresponding information in appendix, cm 22 x 22, Silvana Editoriale Milan 2007. (€ 20,00
+ shipping).
Rhuma – Eritis Sicut Dei, is Libera’s most recent work-in-progress,
begun in 2004 and currently comprised of a set of 300 squares of different, brightly-coloured
fabrics on which the artist
has written the names and dates of tragic events that have marked the
twentieth century. The interrupted life of little
Rhuma, a four-year-old Afghan girl who fell victim to traffickers of
human organs, is the sign that gives the title to the artwork and the
book. A painful path where the artist uses writing in its double meaning
as drawing and as sign, that is as form and as communication, a path
in which she reveals and testifies to the cruelty of real life, reaffirming
that tie between painting and civic outcry that she feels so deeply.
Lea Vergine. read>>
2008
Art-book: THE WALLS OF MIND
photographs and poems by Libera Mazzoleni, essay by G. Longoni, G.
Foschi. In Italian/English, 72 pages, 46 colour images, cm 22 x 22;
Silvana Editoriale Milan 2007. (€ 20,00 + shopping).
The book, faces with the language of the art, but in unusual way
a great deal, meaningful problem list of great actualities, tracing
a run" [.] aesthetical-poetic inside the abysses of the exclusion, of the separation, of the negation, of the active and violent nihilism, to give a facing the hell without that every day lives more to recognize it, because we have called it
with sweet names: safety, peace, democracy, liberty, defense of identity in the book, the images flow with expressive simplicity, exemplifying as the
walls of the mind, is the devices envoys in action for 'to remove' the other,
the migrant one, the foreigner, the woman. The author, exposing himself/herself/itself
in before person puts in scene a "liquid identity" to understand
and to be able to tell that manifold ways that are announced in the world,
in the form of the exclusion, of the negation, of the shame, of the sadism. read>>
