Lo Sguardo Selvatico

A book that began as a slow-paced observation workshop, alternating between individual and group efforts, and experimenting in a non-linear manner. The images were placed as album stickers, gradually, one at a time, savoring the blank spaces yet to be filled.

2018
Bologna

CONCEPT ⁄ ILLUSTRATION
Caterina Gabelli, Sara Maragotto

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Matteo Baratto

Risograph printing / publisher — Marco Tavarnesi, Inuit Editions
Ph. credits — Edoardo Piva

A botanical garden is the epitome of gardens, a place where naturalia, artificialia, and mirabilia blend together, forming a captivating world of its own. Invited to participate in an artist-in-residency project at the Orto Botanico di Bologna by Inuit Editions, we embarked on an exploration by closing our eyes, removing our glasses, so as to avoid fixating on specific things. We distanced ourselves and made our way up close.

In botanical gardens, the untamed nature is cultivated and organized, with careful observations made on our behalf, establishing standards, geometries, families, and groupings based on differences and analogies. My eye is merely the latest among many, focusing on a plant with a rich history; perhaps it sees, or maybe it merely observes.

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