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“Facce da Blogger” is the first book by the photographer-author Elena Datrino.

It collects the 100 main photographs of the project, created in digital medium format and counts 224 pages with images and Italian and English texts. It is an interactive book created together with the graphic designer Antonella Provasi: for each printed portrait, a corresponding QRCODE forwards the reader to more than 100 web pages, each dedicated to a photographed protagonist.

The volume, published in 2023 by Gangemi Editore, is a precious document, a testimony to the positive impact of digital in our society and the cultural ferment that bloggers have brought to Italy.

"I'm interested in witnessing the personalities behind the articles, bringing out their desire to give us, with new media, informed information, enriched by that touch of individuality.” declares Elena Datrino and continues "Tell with a shot the beauty of their creative impulse and their uniqueness."

“Elena Datrino writes a story made up of faces and tells a story through the eyes of the protagonists, unaware that in front of the camera they were not simply interpreting a passion transformed into a profession, but were telling themselves, thus marking the beginning of a change that characterized this era.” declares the curator of the project Tiziano M. Todi.

Book available here: Facce da Blogger

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Reproductions of sculptures, paintings, photographs for the catalog "Metaphysical Visions, Vasco Ascolini meets Canova, Thorvalsen and De Chirico".

The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum and the Pasquale Battista Foundation present the first anthological exhibition held in Milan dedicated to the photographer Vasco Ascolini. The exhibition pays homage to the Emilian artist by retracing his production through a selection of over seventy of the most significant works dedicated to ancient sculpture. Vasco Ascolini's photographs will be linked to works from the past, such as small marble heads, plaster casts by Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen and paintings by Giorgio de Chirico, in an exhibition that aims to highlight the dialectic between ancient and contemporary, recreating in the museum rooms that metaphysical atmosphere pursued by the photographer from Reggio Emilia. The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, increasingly attentive to the dialogues between ancient and contemporary - already inherent in the nineteenth-century approach of the brothers Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi - places the selected works within its fascinating permanent itinerary, inviting the visitor to immerse himself in a journey between memories, theater and metaphysics.

Book available here: Visioni metafisiche

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Reportage of the rooms of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum and reproduction of paintings for the catalog "The Seduction of Beauty, secret masterpieces between 600 and 700".

The volume presents a selection of paintings from the vast collection of Giuseppe Rotelli and Gilda Gastaldi, who, constantly seduced by beauty, together draw a geography of journeys in search of precious works of art that narrate biblical and religious themes, but above all contemplate the daily living with scenes of music, study of the stars, nature and landscape, prayer and banquets. Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Giuseppe Vermiglio, Tanzio da Varallo, Francesco Cairo, Francesco Londonio, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, Sebastiano Ricci, Alessandro Magnasco, Monsù Bernardo, Giacomo Francesco Cipper, Giacomo Ceruti, Michele Marieschi, Francesco Guardi and Luca Carlevarijs are some of the masters undisputed ones that populate a living collection, between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in constant change. The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum opens the doors of the historic residence to an important Milanese collection to discover that art transforms space into time and gives us glimpses of reality but also moments of illusion.

Book available here: La seduzione del bello

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Reportage, stills and portraits for Italicus Bergamot rosolio, first creation by Giuseppe Gallo, Italspirits. Documentation of fruit harvesting, spices, bottling, production and international art competitions inspired by the iconic brand.

Book available here:Art of Italicus Book

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Catalog for the hat designer Francesco Ballestrazzi on the occasion of the personal exhibition at the Museu Chapelaria in S.João de Madeira, Portugal, collections stills.

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Catalog for the artist Matteo Negri, reproductions of works of art and portrait.

Cover portrait, Salvatore Aranzulla.

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Stills, showcases, displays and portraits for the set designer Elena Borghi.

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Reproductions of sculptures for the catalog "Out of time, Livio Scarpella at the Gomiero Gallery".

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Art reproductions: paintings, drawings, watercolours, graphics for the catalogue "Intorno ad un Democrito di Giuseppe Ribera".

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Art reproductions: paintings, drawings, watercolours, graphics for the catalogue "La Venezia dei Grubacs".

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Art reproductions: paintings and drawings for the first monograph of the artist "Luigi da Rios (1843-1892)".

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Art reproductions: paintings and drawings for the complete monograph of the artist "Marieschi”.

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Art reproductions: paintings and drawings for the catalogue "Venezia e l'entroterra veneto dell' Ottocento", racconti di luce, colore e sentimento da Luigi Da Rios ad Alessandro Milesi.

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Art reproductions: paintings, drawings, watercolors, graphics for the catalogue "Il fiore di Venezia, dipinti dal Seicento all' Ottocento in collezioni private".

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Art reproductions: paintings, drawings, watercolours, graphics for the catalogue "Il Bucintoro nella grande arte della Serenissima".

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Art reproductions: sculptures for the catalogue "Lorenzo Bartolini, scultore del bello naturale".

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Art reproductions: objects and paintings for the catalogue "Regina Margherita".

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Art reproductions: paintings, ceramics and portraits for the artist Fabio Mordeglia.

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Art reproductions: paintings, lithographs and portraits of the artist Antonio Saliola for the catalogue/artist's book on the occasion of the retrospective personal exhibition "Nei paraggi del Paradiso" by Galleria Datrino, Castello di Torre Canavese, Torino.

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Art reproductions: paintings, drawings, watercolors, graphics for the catalogue "Percorsi pittorici nel viaggio verso la libertà dei popoli", documentary part of the twenty-year 1995-2015 project "Pittori per la Pace" conceived by Marco Datrino and promoted by the Municipality of Torre Canavese, Turin.