AVARIE
[Artbooks Vuoti A Rendere International Edition]Paris-Berlin based independent publisher, specializing in contemporary art and photo books and exploring the relationship between texts and images, space and body
NEWS
BOOKS
︎︎︎ giuliana prucca devenir minéral [l’éditeur du dimanche]
︎︎︎ flatform snaturamenti
SHOWCASE
MISC.
PRACTICE
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On Saturday, September 6, 2025, Giuliana Prucca — writer, curator, and founder of AVARIE — is delighted to share her lecture DISLOCAZIONI. From Time-Image to Book Space with students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, during CONTESTO, a new lab residency for art production in Montespecchio, Italy.
DISLOCAZIONI. From Time-Image to Book Space is a performative lecture offering an in-depth reflection on the conception of the artists’ book and on publishing as an artistic and authorial practice, explored through the interplay of diverse materials — texts, photographs, archival documents, moving images — and precise graphic choices.
For this session, the focus will be on publications with Peter Downsbrough and Flatform, addressing questions of architecture, landscape, biopolitics, typography, and the transposition of cinematic form into the book.
The Contesto project is grounded in a methodology that observes the complexity of reality by describing the surrounding environment through analog and digital media, combining direct recording with reinterpretation and hybridization from a critical, ironic, and openly experimental perspective.
Montespecchio is a small rural village of about fifty inhabitants in the Modenese Apennines, overlooking the Panaro valley. At its summit stand a bell tower and a former rectory — once an elementary school and now home to art historian and curator Jan Van Der Donk. Alongside his professional work with art books, he fosters cultural life in the community, organizing collective dinners, an open-air cinema, and welcoming artists, students, photographers, and publishers into his residence and archive each summer. These gatherings often spark spontaneous intercultural exchanges and unexpected collaborations.
In September 2025, this spirit will take shape in Contesto, a project for selected students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. The program offers a series of curated workshops and transdisciplinary lectures by professionals from different fields. For this edition, the seven-day residency, taking place from August 31 to September 6, will feature photographer Mario Cresci, philosopher and lecturer Laura Boella, and sound artist Alessandro Danieli, while professors Ernani Paterra, Massimo Arduini, and Denis Deprez (École de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) will act as supervisors. The program will lead to a multimedia installation and two publications: a fanzine and an artist’s book. Conceived by filmmaker and lecturer Lorenzo Casali, Contesto is supported by Jan Van Der Donk, artist and lecturer Serena Porrati, curator and publisher Giuliana Prucca (AVARIE), and publisher Danilo Montanari.
A project developed with the contribution of the Photography and Video, and Graphic Design courses of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in collaboration with Studiomontespecchio and the erg – École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels.
Full program (in italian)