The Municipality of Russi, one of the first city revolting for the italian unification in 1831, commisioned to 30 artist two pieces on paper on the theme of the 150th anniversary of Italian unification. The title “Fratelli in Italia” (“brothers in Italy” instead than the “brothers of Italy” of the national anthem) point the question of the multicultural italian society and the problem to have a nation with different nationalities.
At the studio Tassinari/Vetta, Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi designed the poster and the catalogue cover of the exhibition (see Nation and nationality. posted on 02.01.2011).
The fluo green and red on white of the italian flag is overlapped in different patterns coming from the historical cockade and the african and arabic design.

The identity for the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana 2011, the symphonic music season in Rimini.
Designed at the Studio Tassinari /Vetta by Leonardo Sonnoli for the Relè agency.

Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi, at studio Tassinari/Vetta, designed the communication for Cruciale, an exhibition of 20 crosses designed by Giulio Iacchetti -www.giulioiacchetti.com- at Museo Diocesano in Milan from the 14th of April until 12th June 2011. The exhibition and catalogue published by Corraini is edited by Beppe Finessi.
The poster and the invitation card have been printed crossing three different orthogonal rectangles shifting the offset color plate.

From the 10th of April will be open the exhibition Elogio del dubbio/Eloge du doute/In praise of Doubt, at Punta della Dogana in Venice, the François Pinault Foundation’s centre for Contemporary Art -palazzograssi.it-curated by Caroline Bourgeois.
The Tassinari/Vetta office designed the event communication:
art direction by Leonardo Sonnoli with Anna Dalla Via and Irene Bacchi.

Elisa Sighicelli’s book, english and italian edition, is more than a catalogue of her work.
The design is a collaboration between the artist and Leonardo Sonnoli, to translate on paper her evocative lightboxes and videos.
Editd by Electa, designed with Lucia Pasqualin at studio Tassinari/Vetta.

Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi designed two works to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification.
They speak about the different nationality composing the italian nation and the idea that if a nation has a deep and strong culture don’t need to be afraid of immigrants people.
For the work titled “Fontanalampo”, Sonnoli and Bacchi went to a chinese tailor working in Rimini -the city where they live- to “close” a supposed Fontana’s cut with a zipper; for the second work (“Unità nazionale”), together with her, called Jin Jin, they stiched two previously cutted parts of a paper sheet, to reunify a divided nation, with green and red thread.
The two works has been stamped on the back by Jin Jin together with the authors’ signature.
Both have been commisioned by the Municipality of Russi, one of the first city revolting for the italian unification in 1831.

On the first issue of the 2011 of the New York Times Book Review, titled “Why Criticism Matters” six accomplished literary critics, Stephen Burns, Katie Roiphe, Pankaj Mishra, Adam Kirsch, Sam Anderson and Elif Batuman, explain in the spirit of Alfred Kazin, “what it is they do, why they do it and why it matters.”
The cover and the internal pages designed by Leonardo Sonnoli (the NYT Book Review art director is Nicholas Blechman) are the echo product by the critics’ words about words about words.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/review/index.html

some images from Poemi Quotidiani exhibition, closed on 27th of november

“Non è così importante” is a 56 pages book collecting few Leonardo Sonnoli’s daily poems exhibited in Rimini (see previous news).

info: leonardosonnoli@libero.it

“It’s not so important what you can see in this show than what the viewer can see and recognize in everyday life.”

This exhibition shows few visual and typographic reflections on the everyday life in the public space. Daily newspaper titles, supermarket tickets, staplers, chewing gums and more to redefine a local identity, to observe the poetic beauty of chance.

The exhibition opens on Saturday 6th november at 7 p.m.
Poemi Quotidiani by Leonardo Sonnoli
in collaboration with Irene Bacchi

till the 27th November 2010

at Percorsi / Arte Contemporanea gallery
via Serpieri 17 in Rimini, Italy.

more info at
leonardosonnoli@libero.it
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