{"title":"Giovanni Ferrario","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiovanni Ferrario è artista e docente di Fenomenologia e critica d’arte presso l’Università Cattolica di Milano. I suoi interessi si sviluppano nell’ambito della teoria e della critica delle arti visive. Tra le sue pubblicazioni ricordiamo:Passeggiata minima. Estetica del microscopico(Utet, 2007); con Stefano ArientiLa danza delle polveri(Corraini Edizioni, 2009);Two paper drops before the sky(Mousse Publishing, 2012);Estetica dell’arte contemporanea(Meltemi, 2019). Le sue opere sono state esposte in mostre personali e collettive in Italia e all'estero.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"la-danza-delle-polveri","title":"La danza delle polveri","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStefano Arienti\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eGiovanni Ferrario\u003c\/strong\u003e’s research is presented in book form through this publication: the two artists deal with some shapes of reality after their passage through the filter of thought and technological transformations.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the \u003cstrong\u003ecutting out of photocopies of several books\u003c\/strong\u003e, the two authors get \u003cstrong\u003ethin paper figures of animal and vegetal fossils\u003c\/strong\u003e, that are then scanned, re-edited, and modified. As a result, the images in the pages are often no more recognizable and also do not have a recognizable source anymore. At the same time, the drawings and manipulations by Arienti and Ferrario try to \u003cstrong\u003epreserve an original feeling of fleeting shape in the new forms and objects that they produce\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, their scientific approach is mixed up with the creative and irrational unbalance of dance, that create together a sort of suspended-in-time series of images.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa danza delle polveri\u003c\/em\u003e is an artists’ book and has been printed in \u003cstrong\u003ea single print-run of 1000 copies\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"corraini-shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53629358637386,"sku":"L61","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/8652\/3978\/files\/la-danza-delle-polveri.png?v=1768325846"},{"product_id":"quasi","title":"Quasi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Perhaps we are all sitting in front of an open window, and it is night, there are some lights on here and there in the houses, all those stars over our heads, in space, if there is a space, as if we were in a completely different place, in the middle of the sea, and all around there is just that gasping of the dark and quiet water, without memory and warm…”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWith these words, \u003cstrong\u003eAntonio Moresco\u003c\/strong\u003e introduces us to the work of \u003cstrong\u003eGiovanni Ferrario\u003c\/strong\u003e. This \u003cstrong\u003efirst monograph dedicated to the artist\u003c\/strong\u003e is a promenade that extends across almost fifteen years of production where we can glimpse a mystery that is examined and restored through \u003cstrong\u003eminimal, radical gestures\u003c\/strong\u003e. Flowers, plants, reflections, clippings, breaths, curiosities and surfaces are just some of the traces that the artist leaves intact behind him, a series of constantly open works which offer us glimpses of a suspended reality, momentarily stopped by the last digital scan that makes light the constant element of his poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs well as Moresco’s text, the volume contains written pieces by Stefano Arienti, Roberto Diodato, Emilio Isgrò, Stefano Raimondi, Attilio Stocchi and Paolo Ulian. The book ends with a review of the artist’s career, curated by Alessandro Castiglioni.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"corraini-shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53629398712650,"sku":"L92","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/8652\/3978\/files\/giovanni-ferrario-quasi.jpg?v=1768326512"},{"product_id":"la-sintesi-spontanea","title":"La sintesi spontanea","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is the relationship between a group of Eskimos and an egg? What needs push mankind to conserve a special memory? What is the difference between an image and the design of an image? How can you choose without judging? Through a few simple questions, accumulated by analyzing the history of art transversally, it is possible to get closer to the poetic mystery preserved in every artistic project.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa sintesi spontanea. Complessità e vitalità dell’immagine d’arte\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003cstrong\u003eGiovanni Ferrario\u003c\/strong\u003e starts from this assumption. Originally conceived as a school textbook to \u003cstrong\u003erecount the changing and mysterious nature of the artistic image, the relationship between image and reality\u003c\/strong\u003e, the idea of art as a useful means to continue to seek out new possibilities and experience the world with greater intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Art is generally imagined as something indefinite and often unrelated to reality. However, it is forgotten that every civilization, attributing multiple meanings to this particular quality that permeates an experience, has always tried to use it to observe, represent, criticize and preserve what humanity has achieved in community”: these words open Ferrario’s reflections on art images, thought of as one of the forms through which the stories of the human experience are made tangible and durable. Images that have accompanied humans over the centuries, changing as dynamic organisms, changing shape and constantly suggesting the authenticity of our intimate nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs and images of the works exemplify and enrich the ideas contained in the text, structured in three parts composed of short chapters that develop the various aspects of the theme.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"corraini-shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53629428400458,"sku":"L161","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/8652\/3978\/files\/giovanni-ferrario-sintesi-spontanea.jpg?v=1768327028"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/8652\/3978\/collections\/giovanni-ferrario-header_6d774ed6-5ddd-4a5c-b01d-2fa9b3457d68.jpg?v=1773747291","url":"https:\/\/corraini.com\/en\/collections\/giovanni-ferrario.oembed","provider":"corraini-shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}