Desertions
Giovanna Silva
a+mbookstore
Italian and English
Softcover
Edition of 500
80 pages
215 × 280 mm
2009
ISBN 9788887071207
In 2007, the designer Enzo Mari set out for America together with Gianluigi Ricuperati and Giovanna Silva. Thus, a journey began across the deserts of California and Nevada, from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, with the aim of collecting whatever the desert had to offer. Behind the quest for the found object lies its transformation – in the hands of the designer Mari – into an object of design, of which the “form is perfect because it is what it is.” Silva’s photographs recount this journey, interspersing the American landscapes with memories: an elegant man in a Panama hat, walking and smoking a cigar in the middle of nowhere. Morevoer, the book provides transcriptions of the long conversations held throughout the journey between Enzo Mari and the author.
(Source: https://www.giovannasilva.com/publications/desertions-with-enzo-mari-in-america/)
About the Artist
Giovanna Silva (Milan, 1980) lives and works in Milan. Her photographic books have been published by Mousse, Hatje Cantz, and Nero among others. Her work has been shown at the 10th and 14th Venice architectural biennales, MACRO in Rome, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, the Triennale in Milan, the American Academy in Rome, FRAC Orléans, c/o Berlin, the Biennale de Rabat 2019, and the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Humboldt Books and the co-founder of San Rocco magazine. She teaches Photography at NABA Milan, IUAV Venice’s master in photography program, and ISIA Urbino.
https://www.giovannasilva.com/
(Source: https://www.giovannasilva.com/about/)
About the Publisher
a+mbookstore is a publishing house and a bookstore specialising in visual contemporary arts, founded in 1993 in Milan.
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