Ospiti

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 Rarity, invention and self-education, with Anna Frabotta of Frab’s. The meeting highlights the rich magazine collection held by Biblioteca Sormani. Selected issues will be available to the public, who can join the conversation between Marta Sironi — historian of graphic design and illustration, and curator of the meetings — and Anna Frabotta, journalist and founder of Frab’s, the cultural project dedicated to independent magazines. The library has long privileged subscriptions to a great many periodicals, also as tools of self-education — a thread that continues in recent acquisitions of independent magazines, often deeply specialised and visually exacting. The meeting is part of the programme celebrating some of Sormani’s special collections on the library’s seventieth anniversary.