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99objects - Souvenir ashtray
$62.00
99objects is an artistic and editorial project by the Bolognese duo PetriPaselli.
The idea that underpins this work has its roots in the ancestral, irrational and more contemporary than ever bond between man and the objects that surround him, which he has always bought, collected, collected and preserved. Ninety-nine is almost a hundred. An almost eternal that categorically refuses to become a never: the new, found, chosen object is never the last, but having it brings those looking for it closer to utopian completeness. Precisely for this reason the 99 publications (real art books) that, over the years, are expected to be released, symbolize the double and contradictory drive of desire, constantly poised between the infinite and the complete.
Each issue, dedicated to a specific collection, is a small photographic and visual encyclopedia that aims - through the careful aesthetic selection of the artists - to become exactly what for a collector is the object so sought and finally found. An army of key rings, trophies, ashtrays, pins. The army of things.
The idea that underpins this work has its roots in the ancestral, irrational and more contemporary than ever bond between man and the objects that surround him, which he has always bought, collected, collected and preserved. Ninety-nine is almost a hundred. An almost eternal that categorically refuses to become a never: the new, found, chosen object is never the last, but having it brings those looking for it closer to utopian completeness. Precisely for this reason the 99 publications (real art books) that, over the years, are expected to be released, symbolize the double and contradictory drive of desire, constantly poised between the infinite and the complete.
Each issue, dedicated to a specific collection, is a small photographic and visual encyclopedia that aims - through the careful aesthetic selection of the artists - to become exactly what for a collector is the object so sought and finally found. An army of key rings, trophies, ashtrays, pins. The army of things.
NUMBER 1 - SOUVENIR ASHTRAY Souvenir ashtray is the first volume of the 99objects encyclopedia.
The subject of the volume is a collection of souvenir ashtray composed of 99 specimens, dating back to the 1960s and 1970s, typically made in Italy and characterized by a strongly kitsch
recognizable.
Inside the volume there are 6 works by PetriPaselli, which play on the short circuit created by the juxtaposition between the pleasant atmospheres represented by the subjects of the ashtray and the illustrations by Walter
Molino, a historic Italian cartoonist who in those decades drew the covers of 'La Domenica del Corriere' with his own hand. Molino's style is in fact known for its straightforward and decisive, almost violent line which - when mixed with pastel tones and the idyllic air of small melamine objects - creates an interesting formal and meaningful short circuit.
Dimensions: 16x23.5 cm
Cover: soft
Pages: 104
Paper: Tatami Symbol / Fedrigoni