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The Windows on the World monthly series in the Paris Review Daily blog:
- May 2013: Andrea Hirata and Jakarta, Indonesia
- April 2013: Alejandro Zambra and Santiago, Chile
- March 2013: G. Mend-Ooyo and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- February 2013: Luljeta Lleshanaku and Kruja, Albania
- January 2013: Harris Khalique and Islamabad, Pakistan
- December 2012: Mike McCormack and Galway City, Ireland
- October 2012: Etgar Keret and Tel Aviv, Israel
- September 2012: Sheila Heti and Toronto, Canada
- July 2012: Binyavanga Wainaina and Nairobi, Kenya
- June 2012: Francisco Goldman and Mexico City
- May 2012: Tim Parks and Milan
- April 2012: John Jeremiah Sullivan and Wilmington, NC
- March 2012: Emma Larkin and Bangkok
- February 2012: Xi Chuan and Beijing
- January 2012: Dennis Cooper and Paris
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/category/windows-on-the-world/
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One year later. Remembering Adam Yauch and his NYC window view (from 2009)

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Just found this in my drawer:
Probably the *very* first window view drawing I ever did, from my children’s book “The True Story of Stellina” (Stellina is the bird looking out the window)

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A TALK AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (NYC) ON OCTOBER 29
With Lorin Stein, a conversation about narratives through the use of lines in drawings, words in stories and space in architecture.
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FINESTRA SULL’ITALIA | SEPTEMBER 2012 | FINAL INSTALLMENT
The view from my studio:
“It’s been more than two years since the beginning of this journey through Italy’s windows. After the first view, from our kitchen here in Turin, we’ve been almost everywhere (in the Marches, Liguria, Sicily, Veneto, Tuscany, Basilicata, Apulia, Lombardy, Campania, among other regions). Now, for the series’s final installment, we are back in Turin, with the view from my studio window. As this journey comes to an end, I have an even stronger sense that windows are like mirrors: they reveal much more about us and our lives than they do about the very landscape we see through them.”

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“LONDON FOR CHILDREN” (Macmillan Children’s Books)
OUT ON JULY 5th!
Some photos of the advance copy I just received. Macmillan did such an amazing job on this book!
It’s already available on Amazon UK and US, and at Book Depository (free shipping worldwide).
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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.
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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
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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
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BRAIN PICKINGS: "LONDON UNFURLED: AN OBSESSIVE 37-FOOT ACCORDION DRAWING"
“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
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VISIT TO A NURSERY SCHOOL CLASS
Drawings of window views by five year olds from my daughter’s school in Turin, Italy.
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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
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