Detail "Book * - page 5"
Piombo Fuso Act II is a double book (book *, of 39 pages and book **, of 37 pages) that helds a series of graphical mixed media on brown paper, the pages of an art-book that I did between the end of 2010 and the beggining of 2011.
The work conceptually follows the first series of the Piombo Fuso paintings but evolving visually towards the writing Timeline from 2009. Each book has an ending quote from Michail Bakunin, in italian translation.
I have to largely thank my editor, Giovanni Andrea Semerano, for convincing me to print the entire sequence without interrupting it's flux which, to my view, is all but coeherent and complete yet, but nevertheless an inseparable unity (at least according to him).
The art-book itself is a unique copy, mixed media and print on brown paper (12cm x 16cm).
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- Bakunin quote from Book *
It will not be the first time that clever men, rational and advocates of things practical and possible, will be recognised for Utopians, and that those who are called Utopians today will be recognised as practical men tomorrow.
(Translated and edited by Kenafick)
Non sarà la prima volta che uomini intelligenti e razionali, sostenitori di cose possibili e pratiche, saranno chiamati utopisti, e quelli che oggi sono chiamati utopisti verranno riconosciuti come gli uomini pratici di domani.
Mikhail Bakunin
(1872, Lettera a La Liberté)
- Bakunin quote from Book **
I mean that liberty of each which is not limited or restrained or curtailed by the liberty of another, but is strengthened and enlarged through it: the unlimited liberty of each through the liberty of all, liberty through solidarity, liberty in equality. (Political, & economical and social.) The liberty which has conquered brute force and vanquished the principle of authority, which is, always, only the expression of that force. The liberty, which will abolish all heavenly and earthly idols, and erect a new world of fellowship and human solidarity on the ruins of all states and churches.
(Transaltion from: Bakunin's Writings, Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers, Indore Kraus Reprint co. New York 1947)
Io intendo quella libertà per cui ciascuno, anziché sentirsi limitato dalla libertà degli altri, vi trova al contrario la sua conferma e la sua estensione all'infinito; la libertà illimitata di ognuno per mezzo della libertà di tutti, la libertà per mezzo della solidarietà, la libertà nell'eguaglianza; la libertà che trionfa sulla forza brutale e sul principio di autorità che non fu mai che la espressione ideale di questa forza; la libertà che, dopo aver rovesciati tutti gli idoli celesti e terrestri, fonderà e organizzerà un mondo nuovo, quello dell'umanità solidale, sopra le rovine di tutte le chiese e di tutti gli stati.
Mikhail Bakunin
(
1871, La Comune di Parigi e l'idea di stato)
Book by La Camera Verde
- Selected Paintings
Book *
Mixed media and print on paper (12cm x 16cm)
Book **
Mixed media and print on paper (12cm x 16cm)
