Guests

Art historian with research interests in illustration and editorial graphics, especially from the Italian twentieth century. After working at the apex Centre (archives of speech, image and editorial communication) of the University of Milano and having obtained his PhD at the University of Parma, he currently collaborates with several archives as a freelancer. His publications include: Laughing at Art (Mimesis, 2012) and monographs on John Alcorn (Moleskine, 2013) and Giovanni Pintori (Moleskine, 2015). With illustrations by Francesca Bazzurro, Chiara Carrer, Viola Niccolai, Lucia Pescador, Guido Scarabottolo, Pia Valentinis, Francesca Zoboli told some aspects of the history of art for the Piccola Pinacoteca Portatile series published by Topipittori. Among the most recent projects is the exhibition and its catalogue on Giovanni Mulazzani, created with Silvia Sfligiotti and some students of the ISIA of Urbino (2019) and the publication of an extensive research on Italian editorial graphics between the two wars: The beautiful book (Unicopli, 2019, in publication).

MAGAZINES YESTERDAY AND TODAY

22.10

Talk by Marta Sironi and Anna Frabotta
18:00 Biblioteca Sormani Between rarity, invention and self-training with Anna Frabotta from Frab's. The meeting aims to enhance the rich collection of magazines preserved by Biblioteca Sormani. The selected magazines will be available to the public who will thus be able to participate in the dialogue between the curator of the meetings, Marta Sironi, a historian of graphics and illustration, and Anna Frabotta, journalist and creator of Frab's, the cultural project dedicated to independent magazines. The library has historically privileged the subscription to numerous magazines also as valuable self-training tools, an aspect that is linked to the recent acquisitions of independent magazines that inform on various specific topics in an often very in-depth way with an extreme attention to all visual aspects. The meeting is part of the program aimed at enhancing some special collections of Sormani on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the library.