Your browser does not support the video tag.
Your browser does not support the video tag.
Marco Cadioli - The Whirlpool
  • © ARSHAKE | ISSN 2283-3676
  • CONTACT
  • Login
Arshake
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    Jaye Rhee at the Festival of Time

    Jaye Rhee at the Festival of Time

    Mutations at CUBO

    Mutations at CUBO

    Weather Engines at Onassis Stegi

    Weather Engines at Onassis Stegi

    Interview | Domenico Quaranta

    Interview | Domenico Quaranta

    Ars Electronica. Digital Museum Incubator

    Ars Electronica. Digital Museum Incubator

    Cristian Rizzuti. ECCE HOMO

    Cristian Rizzuti. ECCE HOMO

    Dialogue: James Bridle and Jonas Staal

    Dialogue: James Bridle and Jonas Staal

    Cristian Rizzuti. Vanishing Points at VOGA

    Cristian Rizzuti. Vanishing Points at VOGA

    UpCycle. When Art Reinvents the World

    UpCycle. When Art Reinvents the World

  • FRAME
    FRAME > All the Light You See

    FRAME > All the Light You See

    FRAME > Diplomazija astuta

    FRAME > Diplomazija astuta

    FRAME > VIGIL

    FRAME > VIGIL

    FRAME > Telemedicine

    FRAME > Telemedicine

    FRAME > Angry Sugar

    FRAME > Angry Sugar

    FRAME > SUN SIGNALS

    FRAME > SUN SIGNALS

    FRAME > Dark Suns Bright Waves

    FRAME > Dark Suns Bright Waves

    FRAME > Phantom as Other

    FRAME > Phantom as Other

    FRAME > IMAGINE PEACE

    FRAME > IMAGINE PEACE

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > Living Architecture

    VIDEO POST > Living Architecture

    VIDEO POST > Cryptochrochet

    VIDEO POST > Cryptochrochet

    VIDEO POST > Chroma III

    VIDEO POST > Chroma III

    VIDEO POST > MB-CO2

    VIDEO POST > MB-CO2

    VIDEO POST > Speculative AI

    VIDEO POST > Speculative AI

    VIDEO POST > REFLECTION

    VIDEO POST > REFLECTION

    VIDEO POST > Pendule Acoustique

    VIDEO POST > Pendule Acoustique

    VIDEO POST > We Harvest Wind

    VIDEO POST > We Harvest Wind

    VIDEO POST > Distributive Intelligence

    VIDEO POST > Distributive Intelligence

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • GAME OVER
      • GAME OVER • Loading
      • GAME OVER • CALL FOR IDEAS (5.0)
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • CALLS
    • ARCHIVE
    • ONLINE RESOUCES
  • en
    • it
No Result
View All Result
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    Jaye Rhee at the Festival of Time

    Jaye Rhee at the Festival of Time

    Mutations at CUBO

    Mutations at CUBO

    Weather Engines at Onassis Stegi

    Weather Engines at Onassis Stegi

    Interview | Domenico Quaranta

    Interview | Domenico Quaranta

    Ars Electronica. Digital Museum Incubator

    Ars Electronica. Digital Museum Incubator

    Cristian Rizzuti. ECCE HOMO

    Cristian Rizzuti. ECCE HOMO

    Dialogue: James Bridle and Jonas Staal

    Dialogue: James Bridle and Jonas Staal

    Cristian Rizzuti. Vanishing Points at VOGA

    Cristian Rizzuti. Vanishing Points at VOGA

    UpCycle. When Art Reinvents the World

    UpCycle. When Art Reinvents the World

  • FRAME
    FRAME > All the Light You See

    FRAME > All the Light You See

    FRAME > Diplomazija astuta

    FRAME > Diplomazija astuta

    FRAME > VIGIL

    FRAME > VIGIL

    FRAME > Telemedicine

    FRAME > Telemedicine

    FRAME > Angry Sugar

    FRAME > Angry Sugar

    FRAME > SUN SIGNALS

    FRAME > SUN SIGNALS

    FRAME > Dark Suns Bright Waves

    FRAME > Dark Suns Bright Waves

    FRAME > Phantom as Other

    FRAME > Phantom as Other

    FRAME > IMAGINE PEACE

    FRAME > IMAGINE PEACE

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > Living Architecture

    VIDEO POST > Living Architecture

    VIDEO POST > Cryptochrochet

    VIDEO POST > Cryptochrochet

    VIDEO POST > Chroma III

    VIDEO POST > Chroma III

    VIDEO POST > MB-CO2

    VIDEO POST > MB-CO2

    VIDEO POST > Speculative AI

    VIDEO POST > Speculative AI

    VIDEO POST > REFLECTION

    VIDEO POST > REFLECTION

    VIDEO POST > Pendule Acoustique

    VIDEO POST > Pendule Acoustique

    VIDEO POST > We Harvest Wind

    VIDEO POST > We Harvest Wind

    VIDEO POST > Distributive Intelligence

    VIDEO POST > Distributive Intelligence

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • GAME OVER
      • GAME OVER • Loading
      • GAME OVER • CALL FOR IDEAS (5.0)
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • CALLS
    • ARCHIVE
    • ONLINE RESOUCES
  • en
    • it
No Result
View All Result
Arshake
No Result
View All Result
Home books

Il libro delle Immagini (The Book of Images)

A relational project by Bianco - Valente shaped in the form of a book

Elena Giulia Rossi by Elena Giulia Rossi
31/03/2021
in books, focus
Il libro delle Immagini (The Book of Images)

What do you expect from a book titled The Book of Images? Images, of course. Images take, in fact, centre-stage in the project – publication by Italian duo Bianco – Valente, but outside the frame, in a different form from the one you expect – the visual.

“Memes, selfies, GIFs, logos and icons: you won’t find any of this in the book.” Brunella Velardi says from the start in her preface. “Only images, imagined, imaginary and imaginative images. Images echoing other images and producing new images.” There are eighty-four photographs that the two artists sent to the same number of authors. These include friends, artists, curators, philosophers, architects and people who are part of their network of relations – a construction of connections that grows and evolves in constantly changing ways.

This is one of their relational projects. From black and white photos, hypothetically from the 1940s and 1960s, and gathered through careful research in markets and bookshops, the duo has reconfigured these into book form, covering everything that these images have represented in the lives of those who received them, looked after them, listened to and transformed them into words.

Recovered and framed in the same format, 23 x 23 cm, the photographs were addressed to their recipients, who were then invited to place them in a space which was used everyday, to live with them.

The book represents a chorus consisting of the authors’ responses to the images, rendered in a great variety of ways: real investigations into the origin of the photograph, factual descriptions that can rebuild the image in the reader’s mind, narratives that followed or preceded the shot and much more, sometimes identifying with the people portrayed. Some observed the images for a long time, others felt observed by them in turn.  The diversity of responses that emerged was amazing. Each person has consciously or unconsciously deposited some aspect of his / her own self and, all together, they have built a relational map of Bianco-Valente, who have constructed something more than a project from the word.

As you continue to read, trying to imagine the photograph or even recognising the writer from the narrative style becomes almost a game. Recognising yourself too. When there are no constraints on the freedom to write, which is how Bianco-Valente presented themselves to their authors, then one can discover the constraints we place on ourselves. And it is then time that allows us to recognise these constraints in our own words.

The images generated by the words are rediscovered in subtle nuances, those that not even the most sophisticated software could generate. Business has long understood the imaginative power of words. Just think of the cloud, that symbolic word recognised by all the languages of the Western world for data floating in a “cloud”; these are actually anchored to the ground, fighting for their existence, kept alive by the electricity on which the few databases in the world where they are stored depend.

The book of images unleashes the power of the word in all its humanity – that of the artists, the authors, the characters portrayed and the constellation of real and imaginary relationships that the book builds. Never before have we needed images like we do today, removed from those we are bombarded with at too close a range, to let us reason and, even more, imagine. Could we find in the ability to imagine a possible first step towards the freedom which we now have to regain?


Bianco – Valente, Il lIbro delle Immagini, postmedia.books, 2020 [IT]

 

 

 

Tags: arsarshakebookLibro delle Immagini. Bianco-ValentePostmedia Booksrelationalreview
ShareTweetShareSend
Previous Post

Jeffrey Shaw at Meet the Media Guru

Next Post

GAME OVER.Loading: Interview to Anuar Arebi

Next Post
GAME OVER.Loading: Interview to Anuar Arebi

GAME OVER.Loading: Interview to Anuar Arebi

CALLS

Call for submissions>  Research grant for Italian Art
Calls

Call for submissions> Research grant for Italian Art

07/04/2022
Call for submissions> ISPA (Italian Sustainability Photo Award)
Calls

Call for submissions> ISPA (Italian Sustainability Photo Award)

17/02/2022
Call for submissions > Residenze Digitali
Calls

Call for submissions > Residenze Digitali

01/02/2022
Call for submissions: Blitz
Calls

Call for submissions: Blitz

17/11/2021

CRITICAL GROUNDS

Critical Gounds #13 – Massimo Maiorino, The Artist as Archaeologist.
Critical Grounds

Critical Gounds #13 – Massimo Maiorino, The Artist as Archaeologist.

08/07/2020
Critical Gounds #12 – Filiberto Menna «PROGETTARE» IL FUTURO
Critical Grounds

Critical Gounds #12 – Filiberto Menna «PROGETTARE» IL FUTURO

26/11/2019
Facebook Twitter Instagram

Arshake is a collaborative artistic project, blurring the borders between art, science and technology, information and production.

  • Focus
  • Video post
  • Frame
  • Special Project
  • Interview
  • Calls
  • Exhibitions

One more step - Check your email and click the confirmation link

© 2012-2022 – ARSHAKE

No Result
View All Result
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
  • FRAME
  • VIDEO POST
  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • GAME OVER
      • GAME OVER • Loading
      • GAME OVER • CALL FOR IDEAS (5.0)
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • CALLS
    • ARCHIVE
    • ONLINE RESOUCES
  • en
    • it

© 2012-2022 – ARSHAKE

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.