Description
PAESAGGIO/LANDSCAPE
When discussing a landscape, it’s not necessarily required that we contemplate (or, least of all, appreciate) someplace entirely separate from us; introspective perspective is as much a part of a landscape as dazzling views themselves are. In our case, the particular landscape we’re concerned with is Italy, which further complicates matters: for Italians, landscapes mean both patrimony and fragility, an inheritance to be cared for as well as a looming threat of environmental and historical disfigurement.
The landscape therefore becomes emblematic of the dream of being freed from the tower – or, better put, the necessity of living in it in a different kind of way. It’s perhaps for this reason that a shared idea emerges from these texts: one of knocking down the narrow restrictions we place on personal and cultural identity, of re-arranging them, of using them to make a utopian (or dystopian), ruddy, terrible, giant room with ephemeral walls
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
GIUSI MARCHETTA Arturo / Arturo⁺
GIAMPAOLO SIMI The Beach House / La casa delle vacanze
RUSKA JORJOLIANI Pitch Dark / Nel fitto buio °
AZZURRA D’AGOSTINO Fractures / Fratture
ANDREA INGLESE The Big Room / Lo stanzone
CARMEN PELLEGRINO What is left / Ciò che resta⁺
SIMONA BALDANZI Processing / Accettazione
FRANCESCO TARGHETTA Tiziano among all the banners / Tiziano tra le bandiere
Translations by Johanna Bishop, Frederika Randall°, Jamie Richards⁺
Illustrations by Franz Lang
SUPPORTER
Issue 4 will be released on October 2018 thanks to the support of:
Comune di San Gimignano
FAI – Casa e Torre Campatelli, San Gimignano
Gonzaga University in Florence
ISI Florence – International Studies Institute
