Inspired by a sentence by Reinhold Messner, describing his expeditions as vast invisible works of art (Werner Herzog: Gasherbrum),
Alice Guareschi started an adventure through three continents, travelling according to a code: the colour. From the White Sea (northwestern
Russia), to the Yellow Sea (northeastern China), the Red Sea (eastern Eritrea) and the Black Sea (northern Turkey), filming with a small
videocamera, she turned what she had found and what impressed her into a 92 minute roadmovie. This book also takes the reader on this
journey, by showing a selection of stills taken from the film, as well as notes by the artist, and a collection of postcards sent from abroad.
250 pages / 8-pages soft cover / 205 x 136mm / 1-color Risoprint, 8 pages in full color
Numbered edition of 200. The first 30 copies are signed by the artist
Published by Edition Taube in 2012
Je m’appelle Olympia is an action for house lights performed by Alice Guareschi on just one occasion for a select audience of guests at the Olympia
Music Hall, the legendary and iconic Parisian venue, on April 12th, 2012. The 16 photographs that make up this series were shot on the same day,
right after the live activation of the light choreography in the theater’s empty space, which involved all thirteen of the colored lighting channels that are
permanently integrated into the architecture. With a fixed framing, similar but not identical, following the precise original lighting score composed by the
artist, the images present a sequence of different movements of lights in the auditorium. The photographic series thus becomes a new synthesis of
the image-idea and intention behind the performance: to activate a theater when no show is happening on stage, to play it live, to reawaken its latent
memory and the secret life that eludes the spectator’s gaze. By breaking down the duration of the action into photograms that can be viewed either
separately or all together, the spatial arrangement of the work now makes it possible to embrace the overall idea at a glance.
19-panel leporello / 17.5 x 13.8 cm / IT and EN / Edition of 500
Published by NERO Editions in 2023
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