The Windows on the World monthly series is back in the Paris Review Daily blog:
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/category/windows-on-the-world/
LABORATORY OF LITERARY ARCHITECTURE
The 2012 LoLA course at the Scuola Holden in Turin ended on Friday May 25th. The students did such wonderful work. The “adopt an architect” part of the course, i.e. getting a group of nine architecture students from the Polytechnic of Milan to come and help the creative writing students to build their models, worked out perfectly. Professor Lucio Speca put together a “dream team” of young, motivated and ego-less students.
La Stampa (the Italian national newspaper) dedicated a whole page to the course. See the page here.
To see some photos of the projects and of the class, click here.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
In case you are around, I hope to see you either in Venice:
Matteo Pericoli | Drawings from WithinMay 22 - July 31, 2012
UNIVERSITÀ CA’ FOSCARI VENEZIA - AULA COLONNE
San Sebastiano Dorsoduro, 1686 - Venice (Italy)
Opening: May 22, 2012 - 11AM (12PM Conversation and Q/A)
or in London in July:
Matteo Pericoli | London Unfurled
July 11 - September 2, 2012
Walpole Park, Mattock Lane
Ealing, London W5 5EQ (UK)
Opening: July 10, 2012 - time tbk
A drawing of his NYC window view and his comment from the 2009 book “The City Out My Window”:
“In a city with so much going on it feels calming to come home, look out the window and see the Hudson River. I’m not sure why, but looking at a large body of water seems to do that. I don’t know how much longer we’ll have this view. In NYC it’s only a matter of time before someone builds in front of you, but we’ve been lucky enough to enjoy our view for ten years, and have hopes it will last a bit longer.” —Adam Yauch
“Along the River Thames in pen and ink.”
“London Unfurled — a remarkable 37-foot-long accordion-format book, following in the footsteps of Pericoli’s celebrated Manhattan Unfurled.”
“… what makes the project all the more unusual is its vantage point — it “unfurls” the complexity of London from the river that both divides it and seals it together …”
“London Unfurled also comes as an iPad app that lets you seamlessly scroll the entire drawing, find specific landmarks, flip from north to south, and zoom into Pericoli’s astonishing detail.”
-Maria Popova
VISIT TO A NURSERY SCHOOL CLASS
Drawings of window views by five year olds from my daughter’s school in Turin, Italy.
MATTEO PERICOLI: DRAWINGS FROM WITHIN
In case you are near Cologne (Germany), the exhibition “Matteo Pericoli: Drawings from Within” is opening next Thursday, January 26 (through April 5). I will be there for the opening. See below for details.
@ A.R.T.e.s. galerie
Universitätsgebäude 210
Aachener Str. 217 – Köln
26 Januar 2012
16.30 Uhr | Raum 0.A01
a.r.t.e.s. Gastvortrag
„Drawing and Knowing“
Prof. Dr. Dr. Roberto Casati
Institut Nicod | CNRS-EHESS-ENS, Paris
ab 18.00 Uhr | 1.OG
Vernissage
19.00 Uhr
Künstlergespräch
Matteo Pericoli.
Drawings from Within
26. Januar > > > 5. April 2012
Montag-Freitag 10-16 Uhr
und nach Vereinbarung.
artes-galerie@uni-koeln.de
T +49 221/470-1259
www.artes-galerie.uni-koeln.de/artes-galerie
CERAMICS WITH UNOMI
Based on the La Stampa series “Un anno alla finestra”, Cristina Boselli’s Turin-based ceramic laboratory UNOMI produced a limited series of ceramic trays. Window views of Friedrich Nietzsche, Cesare Pavese, Italo Calvino, among others. Original drawings on display. Ceramics available now, info below.
Laboratorio Artigianale UNOMI di Cristina Boselli - Corso Casale 104, Torino - www.unomi.it - tel. +39-335-8300084
LONDON UNFURLED Picador (UK)
UPCOMING APPEARANCES:
To order “London Unfurled” from Amazon UK click here, from Amazon US click here. From Book Depository (free shipping around the world), click here.
On October 6, Picador UK released both the 26-foot-long, accordion-format book (including essays by Iain Sinclair and Will Self) as well as an iPad APP, so that users can navigate the north and south drawings, tap on buildings to explore and discover the city, hear commentary (mine, unfortunately) about the work, see the 6000+ original photos, and much more.
Over two intense weeks spent in London in September 2009 walking a total of more than 100 km, taking over 6,300 photographs, and destroying a pair of shoes. The two drawings cover approximately 30 km along the Thames showing the city as it is seen from its north and south banks.
To view a home-made preview of the whole north side drawing, click here, or here for the south side. Or here for the “making of” the Houses of Parliament, here for the City, here for the Tower Bridge, or here for Canary Wharf.
From Picador’s Press Release:
From the author of the bestselling, wonderfully unique and iconic book Manhattan Unfurled, comes an equally brilliant and utterly unprecedented portrait of London.
London is divided and united by its river; one of few cities in the world to find its essence in two profoundly different, yet nearly touching, urban characters. So the Thames provides the perfect vantage point for telling the most comprehensive story of this complex city.
Arriving with little previous knowledge of London, Matteo Pericoli made an intensive 20-mile journey along the river, from Hammersmith Bridge to the Millennium Dome and back again. Over two years later, he leaves behind the most astonishing document of his journey: two 37-foot-long pen-and-ink drawings depicting the city’s north and south banks. Each drawing – presented on one side of this beautiful single-sheet accordion-style book – is rendered with loving and essay-like detail, revealing a distinct profile of London in all of its diversity: a dozen boroughs, nineteen bridges and hundreds of buildings, including the Houses of Parliament, Tate Modern, Battersea Power Station and Millennium Wheel.
Matteo Pericoli’s inimitable drawings, constantly complementing and questioning each other, brought him to a better understanding of London – and whether you’ve lived there all your life, or have never been at all, this breathtaking work of art is certain to deepen your thoughts and renew your fascination with one of the world’s most brilliant cities.
THE TELEGRAPH: LONDON UNFURLED IPAD APP REVIEW
A nice review of “London Unfurled app for iPad” by Shane Richmond, Head of Technology for Telegraph Media Group.
“The app version of Matteo Pericoli’s illustrations is a fascinating way to explore the Thames … A chance to sit and really get immersed in a work of art.”
THE “LONDON UNFURLED APP FOR IPAD” IS NOW LIVE!
*** Special reduced introductory price ***
Check out the YouTube promotional video produced by Picador:
Find out more about the app from Picador’s website, or directly on iTunes. Here are the Guardian AppsRush piece and the Gizmodo article.
From Picador’s website:
London Unfurled for iPad is both an absorbing digital companion to the print edition and a new digital edition of the work in its own right. You scroll the entire drawing seamlessly, flipping from north to south, jumping from place to place, zooming in on its extraordinary detail and discovering over 100 points of interest with added facts and amazing background information. Matteo Pericoli opens up his experience of creating this amazing book in audio voiceover highlights, giving an exclusive insight into the world of London Unfurled. A share function lets you send favourite views to your friends, telling your own London story.
With Paul Baggaley, publisher of Picador, at the the in-house pub celebration.
If you are in London next week, the launch event for “London Unfurled” will be at the Charing Cross Road Foyles on October 6th at 6:30PM, please share at will!
From Foyles’ website:
We also have an exclusive interview with Matteo on our website, in which he explains his reasons for choosing London, how he went about the project and which locations he’s considering next. And of course, there’s the book itself to buy too, a terrific present for someone, or just for yourself.
