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AA. VV. (A cura dei figli del deserto, Fusignano)Traversate del deserto
Ravenna, Essegi 1986
Volume published on the occasion of the exhibition held in Fusignano, 1986. Texts by Giorgio Agamben, Jean Baudrillard, Gerald Bisinger, Gianni Celati, Jean-Paul Curnier, Max Frisch, Gabriel Josipovici, Gilles Lipovetski, Giuliano Scabia. Black and white and colour photographs by Olivo Barbieri, Paul David Barkshire, Jean-Paul Curnier, Vittore Fossati, Carlo Gajani, Luigi Ghirri (present with 3 photos), Guido Guidi, Klaus Kinold, Manfred Willmann. Biographies
In copertina "Allevamento di polvere" di Duchamp - Man Ray in una elaborazione serigrafica di Ottavio Gigliotti
Cm 22x24, pp. 228 Brossura (wrappers) Ottimo (Fine)"How much desert there is on this planet that hosts us I had never known before, I had only read about it; nor had I ever known to what extent everything we live on is the gift of a small oasis, as unlikely as grace".
From this dazzling intuition, noted down by Max Frisch in Stiller, to the recent sea storm that hit the Adriatic coast, making us suddenly discover that 30 or 40 km of coastline, devastated by tourism and speculation, are a pure desert without shelter: between these two illuminations there is a thread of thought that, if developed, leads us to see the desert on the threshold of every inhabited place, and also leads us to see the illusory character of any domestication of the planet [...].
In the writers and photographers that we present here, the desert is this path, the path of silence, the celebration of the small oasis, the discovery of some glimmering, or blinding, or moving mythical trace, a flower, an animal, a stone, in the indifferent planetary desert - what in any case, in our languages, is called Nature".
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