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T/19 “Alice abita ancora qui” di A. Ben Nessib e S. Canestrari – arricchisce il libro un testo di Ascanio Celestini

€ 37,00 Original price was: € 37,00.€ 15,00Current price is: € 15,00.

“Alice still lives here” is the new editorial adventure of Tricromia: a volume designed to celebrate the thirtieth year of activity. The protagonists of the anniversary book are two exceptional young illustrators who have created unpublished tables specifically for this project, giving their own reading of Lewis Carrol’s novel: Ahmed Ben Nessib and Samuele Canestrari. A text by Ascanio Celestini enriches the book.

Made in the particular 29×29 cm leporello format with double cover, “ Alice still lives here” presents ten drawings for each of the two authors: two parallel stories that can be read in as many different directions. Two pencils that in the original project should have met on the same page to tell a single story, but the distance imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic prevented it. What initially seemed like a limit has become new creative lymph, an interesting possibility to imagine and implement a project with two voices that run parallel on the pages of the same book. The distance is canceled and becomes union: it is filled by the continuity of the paper that winds from one cover to another.

Giuseppina Frassino asked both artists to work on the imagery proposed by the novel Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol through a common thread that could link the Tricromia gallery to the two artists and to all those who have gone through it with their own work. The choice of the authors, born in 1992 and 1996, is not accidental: their young age confirms the gallery’s tradition of promoting emerging talents. Thirty years of fervent work to discover illustrators and artists who have drawn and painted their visions and their inner worlds on the walls of Tricromia.

Ben Nessib and Canestrari have chosen to re-read the tale of Alice in the masculine, a completely new and absolutely innovative perspective: a disruptive break with gender conventions. The illustrations therefore offer a completely original vision of Alice’s story to which they allude iconographically with metropolitan quotations and poetic illusions, but which they interpret in a completely personal way. The dreamlike d impression remains in search of the marvel typical of the novel they are inspired by, but the roots are always firmly established in the domestic dimension. Those artistic foundations that Tricromia has ensured for three decades to the illustrators it exhibits and promotes.

The continuous references to the rabbit in the Canestrari tables endow the drawn boy with ears that recall what in Alice is the narrative device that triggers the dream adventure: the white rabbit. And then the doors, which metaphorically indicate the crossing, the boundary between reality and dream but also the domestic dimension, the link always evoked with the walls of Tricromia. “ The only possibility is to live here. The space around is occupied by your extraneous presence “: the dreamlike dimension to which Canestrari alludes is also manifested by the blindfold on the eyes of the human figure he has chosen to represent.

“ I don’t know where Alice lives, but if she is as I see her then I think I can host her”: the home is also in the center of Alice male of Ben Nessib who designs armchairs, tables with flowers, a carpet, a door but also flames, domestic plants, cars and a man with a mask: the dimension of the dream is forced to deal with reality.

Categories: Alice abita ancora qui /books, Books Tag: Stefano Ricci
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I would like to talk about Utopia.

I would like to say that we can no longer afford to speak in public about utopias that are too high.

I seem to recall that Marx attributed to certain socialists the lack of a scientific analysis of reality. I think he said they were a bit abstract. Unprofessional. And he called them utopians. Then over the course of the last century we realized that even the scientific nature of the Marxist method turned out to be a bit abstract, not very applicable and in some ways unsuccessful. Many jokes were told in the Soviet Union. I seem to remember one of these sounded more or less like this: do you know what the difference is between communism and capitalism? Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man.

Communism is precisely the opposite.

I seem to remember that in the last century there was also talk of negative utopias, for example about George Orwell and his 1984. In my book of literature there was a phrase like this: sometimes the ideals inspired by the realization of a world perfect lead inevitably to the building of an oppressive and inhuman world.

Alice still lives here . It is the title of a book published for the 30th anniversary of Tricromia. Although this gallery has moved home at least twice. Maybe three. Maybe more. A book published at a time when people are asking questions about their home. Someone had chosen to live far from the city. He had isolated himself so as not to be distracted by the confusion and found himself completely alone. Someone had found a small house trusting in the human wealth of the city and found himself confined in a hole surrounded by an emptied city. Someone else was happy to spend some time in his beautiful home that he had never had time to enjoy. And after a while he couldn’t do it anymore either. Even a big house can be a prison. Mixing time and space in an unbalanced way creates problems. Inmates have too much time and little space, for example. And in fact they ask to spend less time in jail. Alternatively: they ask for a little more space.

I would like to talk about utopia.

I would like to say that we need a model that resembles the world, but which is a little better than the real world. Made with the best pieces of the real world, but cleaned of the rotten ones. Agreeing on which ones are rotten and which ones are healthy would already be a step forward. Perhaps Giuseppina asked Ahmed and Samuele to design this model of the world. Perhaps you have been asking artists for thirty years to design this utopia made with the good pieces of the world. And if the utopia works, they will be able to use the pencil to draw them, but also the eraser to erase the wrong pieces from the world. Perhaps Giuseppina has been asking artists for thirty years to have a house designed for her Alice. Maybe Alice is really her.

I would like to talk about utopia.

I would like to say that it has something in common with dreams where we can have incredible experiences without using pieces from other worlds. In dreams there is the same world we encounter when awake. It is made with the same material. When I was little I had a dream that made me reset everything I had thought about dreams up to that moment. That is, I realized that I was dreaming and I did not wake up. So I tried to pilot the dream. It happens to many. But at that point I realized it wasn’t easy at all. That I couldn’t dream of things I didn’t know. I could see bigger or smaller things. I could mix them, but they were more or less the same as when I was awake.

I would like to talk about utopia.

I would also like to say something about dreams. That is, I would like to say that they are two things that work in a similar way. That to represent utopia you have to learn how to do it. You have to be a professional. And for dreams the same criterion applies. Dreaming is like driving a car. With a little commitment, everyone can get their license and drive the Panda. It takes a little more effort to drive an eighteen-meter articulated lorry. And only a few can race at the formula one grand prix without killing each other at the first corner. The same criterion applies to drawing and writing. We all know how to draw and write a sentence, but how many can write a novel or paint a picture? The criterion also applies to a small novel or a small painting.

Alice still lives here . It is a title made up of words. For me Alice is Giuseppina. Abitare is what she has been doing for thirty years trying to find a place for her and her artists. Professional people of dreams and drawings like Ahmed and Samuele. Ancora is an adverb. It indicates that an action or fact is not concluded, but continues, it continues in the present. It is written in the dictionary.

Here is utopia.

Ascanio Celestini

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Founded in 1990, for thirty years it has been promoting illustrators and cartoonists with passion and a playful spirit. She has never been satisfied with the evanescence of an exhibition, always “for a fixed period”, implementing constant care in immortalizing the movement of the images that rest on the white walls of the gallery and then take other directions, fly elsewhere. Artists such as Mattotti, Muñoz, Toppi, Pericoli, Altan, Mannelli, Ricci, and many emerging young people, were discovered and presented by Giuseppina Frassino who in the gallery, whose historic headquarters was for years in Via di Panico first and then in Via della Barchetta, has imbued the Roman artistic life with events and exhibitions dedicated to the world of illustration. In recent years, Tricromia has made a further investment in favor of artists, becoming an art editor. Together with the authors he decided to “fix” the beauty of their drawings in publications, mainly books, but also precious boxes, papers and author’s notebooks and even a theater. The first graphic project of the Tricromia books was by Stefano Ricci, now the design is entrusted to Sara Verdone who takes care of the entire graphic image of the gallery.

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