Onehourbooksexhibition -and its consequences- is a lecture/exhibition by Leonardo Sonnoli at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (NL) on March the 30th, 2012.
In approximately one hour he guide the audience through an exhibition of selected books and magazines – from his own bookshelves – about poetry, typography, music, prayers, theatre, art. A direct outcome of reading these books is that he has made a short selection of his recent works, introduce after the exhibition.

Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana will offer a cycle of monthly meetings with the artists whose works are presented in the exhibitions In Praise of Doubt and The World Belongs to You, both curated by Caroline Bourgeois.
The communication of the events is designed by Leonardo Sonnoli.

Leonardo Sonnoli and Irene Bacchi designed a series of 4 posters as part of the set up for the performance “Everydayjohncage Live”, produced by the Municipality of Rimini.
The four letters -C, A, G, E- are the result of 4 sessions throwing an octahedron dice. Then each letter is composed in a random way, with a predeterminate drawing, from the eight symbols corresponding to the eight side of the dice.

The Latin verb volvere, meaning to roll or wrap, is the origin of volumen as the definition of those strips of papyrus, the vegetal fibre used for writing in antiquity, that were glued together and rolled up into a scroll. For the Fedrigoni Milk and Arcoprint paper catalogue, Leonardo Sonnoli designed a booklet as specimen, where his sentences and virtual three-dimensional illustrations play on the ambiguity of the word “Volume” related to these bulky papers and their use as books.

A project by Andrea Felli, Roberto Paci Dalò, Leonardo Sonnoli.
Rimini, from 1 January to 31 December 2012, one year dedicated to John Cage.
Every day a virus distributes through the city, in public and private places, fragments and materials related to John Cage.
Designed by Leonardo Sonnoli and Irene Bacchi.

The logotype is designed to assume always a different shape/size randomly, throwing one dice.
The 16 letters are positioned in a 4×4 grid and fixed the smaller size it is multiplied by the result of a dice throw.

Here few pictures of the north wing at the Château de Versailles (see the previous post).
The decoration of these reception spaces for groups and students has been designed by Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi.

In the year 2009 Jean-Jacques Aillagon, the president of the Château de Versailles, got started the project to renovate the rooms of the two, so called, Ailes des Ministres (north and south). The new spaces were designed as reception of the visitors (the south wing) and of the groups and students (the north wing).
Leonardo Sonnoli was asked to design a visual entertainment. Now, after two years and three different projects, the work made with Irene Bacchi is arrived at the end.
The installation tells the history of the castle through the interpretation of its icons:
the kings’ portraits, from Louis XIII to Louis Philippe, the queens, the typography -the famous Roman du Roi and its dveloping- and the symbols of the power, the costumes of court and the paintings collected by Louis XIV.
The work is painted on the wall or put on with wallpapers: both are quotations of the frescos and wallpapers decorating the famous rooms of the Versailles palace.
Here few pictures of the south wing. In a next post the pictures of the north wing.

From Sunday 20th of November, during a week, I’ll be guesting on Faber Blog, the blog of the main Italian financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, each week managed by a different professional.
I’ll try to tell daily my work, between troubles and opportunities.
faberblog.ilsole24ore.com/

From the 18th od November 2011, at the Biblioteca Gambalunga in Rimini, three artist show an installation as dialogue between their works and the antique books of the library. The venue is the library’s antique rooms. Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi designed an extremely low budget catalogue collecting in a numbered (300 copies) black box all the 60 unbounded pages with textes and pictures of the exhibition. The old archive style box is filled with an interpretation of the fragility of our digital library by Sonnoli and Bacchi: a glued 3.5″ floppy disk on the back of its xerox portrait. The boxes walls installed in the rooms is designed to be removed by the visitors.

On November 9th, 7.30 pm, at the new modern art museum of Milan, the Museo del Novecento, Leonardo Sonnoli will present his work about the communication of cultural institutions and event.
The lecture title “L’aura non c’è” is an untranslatable italian play on words referred to the Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” and the italian pop culture: the graphic design not vs but with the Art.