Nicolò Coronato Cronaca Rotta, 2022

Cronaca Rotta is an alternative frequency on reality and an ongoing collective practice of self-representation and of channelling alternative realities through the intuitive remixing of local newspaper headlines. It is an ongoing collage practice based on collaboration and irony, creating momentary escapes from linguistic constraints.

The process began in 2022 as a joint activity during the UVA Residency in rural Monferrato, incorporating raw materials from both the Chioggia archive and the local news of Monferrato.

This experience encouraged an ironic and spontaneous shift of perspective on the language imposed by the media that defines the public sphere, also serving as a trace of the presence of the eleven artists who shared the same house for a month.

The original collages (regarded as matrices) are kept and documented in the Cronaca Rotta archive.

As part of the transformation process, the original collages become advertising posters again and are put back into their native environment.

All the subjects are first adapted into a limited series of digital posters and then progressively transformed into unique, hand-made prints.

A14 worked with the artist on producing the prints on the intaglio press. To remain consistent with the project, paper plates were chosen, that is, sheets onto which the selected composition had been fixed, instead of the traditional lithographic stone.

The gumprint technique in fact uses a sheet of paper which, worked with a greasy substance and prepared with gum arabic, can be printed following the same procedure as traditional lithographic printing. Being an ephemeral support, it allows only a limited number of impressions to be made.

In this specific case, each impression was obtained by adding together, in register, several printing passes, each corresponding to a different colour.