Nei giorni scorsi, la galleria Alberto Peola di Torino presentava a Artefiera a Bologna qualche quadro di Gabriele Arruzzo, e uno mi piaceva molto. Mi hanno dato il catalogo della serie Hortus Conclusus, mi pare straordinario, una monografia (quasi) senza parole.
Siamo in pochi a fare cataloghi che in realtà sono libri, opere a sé. Spiace anche, chiamarli col nome riduttivo di cataloghi.
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Some days ago, the gallery of Alberto Peola, Turin, was showing at Artefiera in Bologna some paintings by Gabriele Arruzzo, and I liked one of them quite a lot. They gave me a catalogue of the series Hortus Conclusus, I think it's extraordinary, a work in itself, a wordless monograph, almost.
We are not many to produce catalogues that actually are books, artworks in themselves. It's a pity even to call them catalogues, they are much more.