OBJECT BOOK IS AN INITIATIVE – THE ONLY ONE OF IT’S KIND IN THE WORLD – WHICH PROPOSES, THROUGH THE BOOK, A REFLECTION ON THE APPEARINGLY DISTANT AREAS OF DESIGN AND ART.
BOOK OBJECT BELIEVES AND STIMULATES CULTURAL CONTAMINATION AND PROPOSES ITSELF AS A WITNESS TO THE NEW FORMS OF CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSION CONFIRMING THE AUTHORITY AND VALUE OF THE BOOK AS AN INSTRUMENT OF KNOWLEDGE.
LIBRO D’ARTISTA
Artist’s book as a manifestation of the individual’s desire to express a testimony, disseminate an experience, share a common feeling, offer a yearning for poetry, an anticipation of the future, a warning, a topic that investigates the human soul to become universal.
HYBRID BOOK
Hybrid book as an artist’s book created with printing techniques and various technologies to generate the contents.
BOOK DESIGN
Book design as a product of a project intended for the publishing industry with the aim of spreading knowledge, transmitting memory or celebrating excellence.
The fifth edition of the traveling Object Book
After the great success at the ADI DESIGN MUSEUM in Milan in October 2023, the fifth edition of OGGETTO LIBRO has multiplied the appointments and inaugurated a series of exhibitions in central and southern Italy, effectively becoming an event of national interest.
Four appointments in Puglia and one in Siena.
Academy of Fine Arts of Lecce 1 March 2024.
This is followed by the three exhibitions promoted by the Biblio-museum Center of the Puglia Region, specifically at the Francesco Ribezzo Archaeological Museum of Brindisi, at the “G. Bovio” in Trani and at the Acclavio Library in Taranto.
Another selection of Object Book was hosted in Santa Maria della Scala in Siena in the former Refectory rooms and in the Giuliano Briganti Library, from 23 March to 7 July 2024.
The tour of Puglia
The Apulian exhibitions featured 61 artist, hybrid and design books, including 46 artefacts from the V Biennale and 15 from the previous edition, of which 26 were enriched by augmented reality and the “100 x Segnalibro” collection, which collects the works by artists and designers invited to create a bookmark dedicated to time and memory in 2020, on the occasion of the centenary of Fila, Fabbrica Italiana Lapis ed Affini.
Book object in Siena
The exhibition presented a selection of works from the V Biennale in the rooms of the former Refectory and at the Giuliano Briganti Library: 4 installations, 46 artist, hybrid and design books, 25 of which enriched by augmented reality, plus 8 books from the Collection Librartis of the Briganti Library, already exhibited in Milan.
The books that won the first Best Book Award, assigned to the best artist, hybrid and design book, were displayed at the exhibition.
Book Object received the Honorable Mention of the Compasso d’Oro 2018, the prestigious recognition of ADI Italian Industrial Design Association, in June 2018.
In 2017 also received the Lombardy Region Award dedicated to Lombard excellence.
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Organization
SBLU_spazioalbello is a non-profit association founded with the aim of spreading visual culture, provoking doubts and moving questions in the search for beauty. It want to be a center of constructive provocation and a meeting point for creative people and enthusiasts, in a context now accustomed to any visual stimulus.
To achieve this goal, it proposes initiatives and exhibitions that involve the general public.