Fratelli d'Italia, 2009

Emilio Isgrò
Artist's Book. Solo Exhibition. Gruppo Credito Valtellinese Gallery, Milano.
Exhibition curated by Marco Meneguzzo
This is the first major exhibition that Milan – the Sicilian artist’s adopted city since the 1950s – has ever dedicated to Emilio Isgrò. It is a carefully curated retrospective of Isgrò’s work, featuring over 70 pieces spanning his entire artistic career, grouped by thematic areas, including three installation works of great visual and conceptual impact.
Fratelli d’Italia is the title chosen for this exhibition and also for the work that first greets the visitor: a long, imposing strip, almost twenty-seven metres long, featuring the national anthem ‘erased’ by the artist. A precise intervention, a provocation, yet not irreverent, as is often the case in his works; intended to bring to the fore that wealth of meaning which excessive communication and habit tend to flatten, yet which instead proves ever-changing and capable of renewing itself over time.
La prima ampia mostra che Milano, città d’adozione dell’artista siciliano fin dagli anni ’50, abbia mai dedicato a Emilio Isgrò. Un’antologica sceltissima della produzione di Isgrò, di più di 70 opere di tutto il suo percorso artistico riunite per aree tematiche, tra cui in mostra tre opere-installazioni di grande impatto visivo e concettuale.
 
Fratelli d’Italia è il titolo scelto per questa esposizione e anche dell’opera che per prima accoglie il visitatore: una lunga e imponente striscia, quasi ventisette metri, con l’inno nazionale “cancellato” dall’artista. Un intervento preciso, una provocazione, ma non dissacrante, come spesso accade nelle sue opere; con intenzione di far emergere quella carica di significati che l’eccesso della comunicazione e la consuetudine tende ad appiattire e che invece si rivela sempre in mutamento e sa rinnovarsi con il passare del tempo.
Artist's book
It is for this exhibition and this latest work that the limited edition artist's book was created, with the same title, Fratelli d'Italia, embossed on the title page.
Edition curated by Daniela Lorenzi
Technique: intaglio printing, photoengraving, dry printing, typography and screen printing
Size: 29 x 26 cm
Paper: Hahnemühle natural 230 g for the inside pages, Alcantara 400 g for the cover
Edition: 80 copies signed and numbered by the artist from 1 to 80
60 signed in Arabic numerals, 10 signed in roman numerals, 10 p.d.a. ( a.p.)numbered from one to ten
Typography: Composition in typeface Monotype, Rodolfo Campi
Screen Printing: Arte 3
Photoengraving: 74/B
Printmakers: Alberto Serighelli, Moreno Chiodini, Daniela Lorenzi with the presses of Giorgio Upiglio
Technical and digital Assistance: Francesco Baldassarre, Barbara Mezzaro, Kaloan Meenochite
Bookbinding: A14
Publisher: CREVAL
Special features: Each copy includes a triptych with hand-painted details by the artist
Exhibitions
The book has been presented in 2009 at the Credito Valtellinese Gallery, Milano and Acireale with lectures by Marco Meneguzzo, Emilio Isgrò and Daniela Lorenzi.
in 2013 in the shape of a book at Studio d’arte del Lauro Milano, Italia.
In 2010 Arte libro Bologna. Derbylius Gallery.

Fratelli d'Italia, 2009

Emilio Isgrò
Artist's Book. Solo Exhibition. Gruppo Credito Valtellinese Gallery, Milano.
Exhibition curated by Marco Meneguzzo
This is the first major exhibition that Milan – the Sicilian artist’s adopted city since the 1950s – has ever dedicated to Emilio Isgrò. It is a carefully curated retrospective of Isgrò’s work, featuring over 70 pieces spanning his entire artistic career, grouped by thematic areas, including three installation works of great visual and conceptual impact.
Fratelli d’Italia is the title chosen for this exhibition and also for the work that first greets the visitor: a long, imposing strip, almost twenty-seven metres long, featuring the national anthem ‘erased’ by the artist. A precise intervention, a provocation, yet not irreverent, as is often the case in his works; intended to bring to the fore that wealth of meaning which excessive communication and habit tend to flatten, yet which instead proves ever-changing and capable of renewing itself over time.
La prima ampia mostra che Milano, città d’adozione dell’artista siciliano fin dagli anni ’50, abbia mai dedicato a Emilio Isgrò. Un’antologica sceltissima della produzione di Isgrò, di più di 70 opere di tutto il suo percorso artistico riunite per aree tematiche, tra cui in mostra tre opere-installazioni di grande impatto visivo e concettuale.
 
Fratelli d’Italia è il titolo scelto per questa esposizione e anche dell’opera che per prima accoglie il visitatore: una lunga e imponente striscia, quasi ventisette metri, con l’inno nazionale “cancellato” dall’artista. Un intervento preciso, una provocazione, ma non dissacrante, come spesso accade nelle sue opere; con intenzione di far emergere quella carica di significati che l’eccesso della comunicazione e la consuetudine tende ad appiattire e che invece si rivela sempre in mutamento e sa rinnovarsi con il passare del tempo.
Artist's book
It is for this exhibition and this latest work that the limited edition artist's book was created, with the same title, Fratelli d'Italia, embossed on the title page.
Edition curated by Daniela Lorenzi
Technique: intaglio printing, photoengraving, dry printing, typography and screen printing
Size: 29 x 26 cm
Paper: Hahnemühle natural 230 g for the inside pages, Alcantara 400 g for the cover
Edition: 80 copies signed and numbered by the artist from 1 to 80
60 signed in Arabic numerals, 10 signed in roman numerals, 10 p.d.a. ( a.p.)numbered from one to ten
Typography: Composition in typeface Monotype, Rodolfo Campi
Screen Printing: Arte 3
Photoengraving: 74/B
Printmakers: Alberto Serighelli, Moreno Chiodini, Daniela Lorenzi with the presses of Giorgio Upiglio
Technical and digital Assistance: Francesco Baldassarre, Barbara Mezzaro, Kaloan Meenochite
Bookbinding: A14
Publisher: CREVAL
Special features: Each copy includes a triptych with hand-painted details by the artist
Exhibitions
The book has been presented in 2009 at the Credito Valtellinese Gallery, Milano and Acireale with lectures by Marco Meneguzzo, Emilio Isgrò and Daniela Lorenzi.
in 2013 in the shape of a book at Studio d’arte del Lauro Milano, Italia.
In 2010 Arte libro Bologna. Derbylius Gallery.
Fratelli d'Italia. Artist's book. © A14
Giorgio Upiglio and Kaloan Meenochite during the assembly stages in the atelier Upiglio.

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