08 May 2024
Abisso
For a month, Nico Maria studied and photographed the great landslide that shook the cliff of San Leo in 2014, in search of images that could translate the drama of the experiences described by the 13th century mystics. These became the aniconic way of representing a group of fourteen 'Mystics of the Rock' that the artist is particularly fond of. Some are saints, others heretics, one is an anarchist, of some we know the life, of others not even their real name, some died in glory, others at the stake. This book is a reflection on their fate and the possibility that the experience of the mystical union of the world has of changing ours.
- size140×210 mm
- pages32
- printrisograph 1 colour
- coloursblack
- paperarena natural rough 140g, sirio perla 115g, sirio pietra 290g
- typefacelaica by alessio d′ellena (abc dinamo)
- bindingfolded, unbound
- copies100
- languageita/fra
The editorial project emerging from Nico Maria’s research consists of the Abisso edition and an A3 art print.
Both works, produced in single-color risograph printing (Black), result from a process of reworking the artist’s original photographs. The chromatic decomposition required for this technique suspends the images of the landslide in another dimension, rendering them abstract, rarefied, almost transcendent.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Il Misticismo della Roccia (The Mysticism of the Rock) and staged in the Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta in San Leo.
The Mysticism of the Rock
- size297x420 mm
- printrisograph 1 colour
- coloursblack
- paperarena natural rough 300g
- copies20
The Il Misticismo della Roccia art print is part of the same project. Printed in A3 format in single-color risograph (Black), the work belongs to the sequence of photographs selected by the artist for the edition and specifically depicts the figure of the mystic Hadewijch van Antwerp.
These prints result from a process of reworking the artist’s original photographs: the chromatic decomposition required for this technique suspends the images of the landslide in another dimension, rendering them abstract, rarefied, almost transcendent.
Result of the Artist Residency in San Leo, Rimini, April-May 2024.
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