Books

FAR FETCHED
INVEROSIMILE
Standard edition of the book realized by Tabularasa Edizioni in co-working with Tekè Gallery for Jesse Jacobs’s solo show “Far Fetched”, Carrara, Italy, June 2018.
Texts in Italian and English by Vittore Baroni, Marco Cirillo Pedri, Robert Clough, Stefano Dazzi Dvorak, Alessandra Ioalé, Marco Taddei, Valerio Stivè, Henry Flames.
Hard cover, 180 color pages printed on Fedrigoni paper Arcoprint EW 140 grams. Printed in 750 copies. ISBN 978-88-942665-2-8
Size 21x31cm
First edition May 2018

SAFARI HONEYMOON
by Jesse Jacobs

Available only in Italian language
80 color pages
Paperback
17x24 cm
ISBN 9788898644209

VIVONO IN ME
by Jesse Jacobs

Published by Hollow Press in April 2017
Limited at only 500 copies (italian edition)
Off-set print
Printed in an A4 format on 170g paper
32 pages + B/W cover (soft spine + hard frontcover and backcover

THE DARK BOOK
Into the Mysterious Mind of the Artists
by Kuang Chu

Soft Cover
Texts in english
192 color pages
Cypi Press, 2017

THE SAINT - Limited Edition
Hard Cover and Screen Printed Book Jacket cm 80x33


Dark years.
Few are those who still have confidence in the future.
The only ones to wander around the world are those who are driven by blind faith.
After a thousand vicissitudes, two friars land on an island "never touched by civilized beings" with the desire to convert its natives.
They will find savages not at all bellicose, but with clear ideas on religious issues.
So convincing that the friars will almost get converted.

This book was realized and published in the time of the Coronavirus by Tabularasa Edizioni in cooperation with Bisso Edizioni and Tekè Gallery.
Written by Marco Taddei
Illustrated by Marco Filicio Marinangeli
Translation from italian to english by Mara Mattoscio
Proofreading and revision of texts by Stefano Dazzi Dvořák
Layout and graphic design by Johanna Mercadé - Mot
The illustrations by Marco Filicio Marinangeli were photographed by Luciana Paris and Franz Gustincich
Limited Edition of 100 copies with hard cover and with book jacket cm. 80x33 - 31,5" x 13" hand screen printed
in 5 levels by Kill the Print and signed by the authors.
First edition in Italian and English © 2020, Tabularasa Edizioni
Number of pages: 56
Printed by Kerschoffset, Zagreb, Croatia
Cover: Munken Pure 300 grams
Inside: Munken Pure 150 grams
Dimensions cm. 24 x 33 - 9,5" x 13"
Isbn: 978-88-942665-8-0

The full book is printed on MUNKEN "PURE" paper, the best and most natural paper by Arctic Paper.
Extraordinary printing demands extraordinary design paper.
The uncoated smooth surface of Munken Pure and its cream shade convey distinct features to images
and gives an exclusive yet very true natural paper feel.

THE SAINT - Standard Edition
Soft Cover with flaps


Dark years.
Few are those who still have confidence in the future.
The only ones to wander around the world are those who are driven by blind faith.
After a thousand vicissitudes, two friars land on an island "never touched by civilized beings" with the desire to convert its natives.
They will find savages not at all bellicose, but with clear ideas on religious issues.
So convincing that the friars will almost get converted.

This book was realized and published in the time of the Coronavirus by Tabularasa Edizioni in cooperation with Bisso Edizioni and Tekè Gallery.
Written by Marco Taddei
Illustrated by Marco Filicio Marinangeli
Translation from italian to english by Mara Mattoscio
Proofreading and revision of texts by Stefano Dazzi Dvořák
Layout and graphic design by Johanna Mercadé - Mot
The illustrations by Marco Filicio Marinangeli were photographed by Luciana Paris and Franz Gustincich
First edition in Italian and English © 2020, Tabularasa Edizioni Number of pages: 56
Printed by Kerschoffset, Zagreb, Croatia
Cover: Munken Pure 300 grams
Inside: Munken Pure 150 grams
Dimensions cm. 24 x 33 - 9,5" x 13"
Isbn: 978-88-942665-5-9

The full book is printed on MUNKEN "PURE" paper, the best and most natural paper by Arctic Paper.
Extraordinary printing demands extraordinary design paper.
The uncoated smooth surface of Munken Pure and its cream shade convey distinct features to images and gives an exclusive yet very true natural paper feel.

THE CROCODILE
Book by Fëdor Dostoevskij edited by Orecchio Acerbo Editore
with illustrations of Marco Filicio Marinangeli.

Size cm. 21 x 30.
72 colour pages.
Hard cover
Printed in 100 numbered copies.
It contains 1 numbered silkscreen size cm.16x21,7 signed by the author and produced by StraneDizioni.
Available in Italian language only.
In a gallery of Petersburg there is an exhibition of exotic animals: parrots, monkeys and crocodiles. The crocodile is the greatest attraction and gets the attention of Mr. Matveich, who unwisely teases him and ends up being eaten. The screams of Mr Matveich’s wife and his dear friend and witness of the incident, meet the still stronger screams of the owner of the crocodile. The latter fears that the ‘meal’ is too heavy to be digested and will kill his beloved crocodile. Then the unbelievable happens: from the belly of the crocodile, it is Mr. Matveich who, alive and well, shouts of the reptiles new and unusual condition: an incredibly comfortable elastic stomach. Why do not take advantage? People will come from far and wide to hear what the man inside the crocodile has to say and, paying a quarter of a ruble each, will make him a fortune. But human nature feeds on lies and the truth is not always newsworthy. The next day the newspapers report: Helpless crocodile forced to swallow a drunk! A masterpiece of irony, a masterpiece of Dostoevsky.

Maria Ginzburg - Memories of the Dust Accordion Book The project is dedicated to the Apuan Alps and to all those landscapes which, for trivial reasons linked to profit-making purposes of private individuals, are in danger of disappearing. The intent is to highlight the problems generated by a system that compromises the complex balance of nature, of these mountains victims of mass production. The exhibition also highlights the passive acceptance by the community, of permanent damage to this collective heritage, which took millennia for its formation and which it will no longer be possible to recover future. The underlying theme of the work is the latent memory of calcium carbonate, the material that forms marble and yes presented as a powder, the genesis of which dates back to a life cycle and a thousand-year history of transformation and continuous structural modification, which leads to the creation of mountain ranges. In the contemporary world, this material, obtained by transforming extracted marble blocks into powder from the mountain, has recently gone from waste residue to speculation, now used for industrial whitening processes, involving products such as paper or toothpaste. The leporello presented at the exhibition, with the aim of narrating the duplicity of the path of this material, presents two different reading verses, which allow you to read the work both from right to left, and vice versa. This is to narrate, on the one hand, the very slow pace of the millennial natural evolutionary history of marble, with the complexity that guaranteed its formation, both to describe the destructive work of the human being and the speed with which the extraction processes irreparably and fatally affect the landscape. The visible contrast between the two sides shows the long-term consequences of harmful and selfish behaviors of man, offering a starting point for an ethical reflection and self-responsibility on the issues of pollution, offering an alternative perspective. A perspective in which education for environmental sustainability becomes an essential core to provide coordinates that can lead to more informed choices in everyday life, through the construction of a active and participatory critical awareness. The cultural investment allows a real emancipation from the logic of profit and enslavement, in which harmful consumer dynamics generate waste and an aggressive lifestyle towards the planet. All this leads to reflections on the possibility of creating a new way of understanding the collective and private space, in the light of alternative solutions that guarantee real well-being, which can be expressed through respectful and harmonious coexistence of man with the surrounding space, where well-being is not expressed solely in hedonistic attitudes, but in the real and tangible improvement of the quality of life. The meaning of our existence on the planet is found in the indispensability of empathy, of cooperation. In a point of view overall it is clear that the ethical sense of our daily life can only be acquired recognizing oneself in the different, be it the natural world of vegetation and animals, or man himself. In conclusion, the path traced in the pages of "memories of the dust" wants to affirm the link indissoluble bond that binds man to the surrounding environment, starting from the analysis of the processes of creation of life, and highlighting how much the loss of the ultimate meaning of living is the primary cause of inner malaise of the planet.

THE CASTLE OF THE DELOSIONAL POWERS
Accordion book by Maria Ginzburg.

It is a work that arises from the need to investigate the complex economic speculations that fuel the arms
and war market and power relations and private
interests that determine the genesis of a conflict highlighting the contradictions and drifts that arise
hide behind the dehumanizing rhetoric of violence and the consequent legitimization of
inhuman practiches.

Texts and illustrations by Maria Ginzburg.
Printed and bound by hand in silkscreen by the printing house La Luce Rossa.
Limited edition of 50 copies.
Cover in Favini Nero Burano paper weighing 339 grams
Interior in 170 gram Favini BiancoFlash Ivory paper.
Printed in August 2024.
Leporello dimensions closed cm. 25x25
Open leporello dimensions cm. 160x25
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GRRRz Comic Art Books presents Changes by Mp5

64 boards in box set + 2, size cm 22x22, b/w, 600 numbered copies.

The I-ching, known as the book of Changes, is a chinese oracular book wrote about the year 1000 b.c.
The text is composed of 64 judgments, oracles that represent the possible states of the cosmos change.


Changes is the visual investigation of Mp5 inspired by the 64 judgments of the I-ching.

For indisputable artist's request, the boards are packed in ascending order corresponding to thaone of the hexagrams of the I-ching, from the first to the sixty-fourth, but they are not numbered.
The collector who wants to keep intact the initial order must not mix the boards.
This request preserves the work to resemble the reality, where everyone can take an ordered system and mix it how he likes, causing and experiencing the change, and the risk to reach the beauty of chaos.

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Some people know MP5 for his large mural works, others because his creations have become symbols of transfeminism and queer culture. His works have been exhibited all over the world and have appeared in major newspapers. In this book, MP5 has collected years of his production for the first time, selecting and reordering images based on three declinations - Erotic Corpus, Hermetic and Heretic - to recompose the story of his artistic practice. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rizzoli Lizard, 2023 Language ‏ : ‎ Italian Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages - Hard Cover ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8817180351 Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.6 x 2.8 x 24.5 cm

“Everything that acts is a cruelty.” – Antonin Artaud – “Separated from each other by the general loss of any language adequate to describe the facts, in the conspicuous consumption of nothingness.” – Guy Debord – We go round and round in big circles just to come back where we started. A narrative sequence with no end, no beginning, lost in an eternal comeback made of silence and bold lines. No words, only sawed off images that leaves breathless. The many stories told in the book are made of distortions for shut eyes. Pages connected as if they were in a sort of accordion of boundless imaginative power. Scenes, connections, power and strength dynamics clash and struggle, fading away and coming to life. Like if dying and living wasn’t enough. A road with no directions to come back home. The whole book is a palindrome in which the characters are actors on a stage/landscape, frozen in actions that reveal two possible interpretations, they can be read in a way or another. a small installation rather than a book, its pages connected in a visual accordion that goes from the first to the last and goes on the back. To unfold the whole book it’s necessary a big floor where it can be laid, To close it requests the same meticulous skills used to fold maps. This sequence of scenes – that invade each other without interruption, switching like movie scenes that despite their differences are in the same tracking shot – it’s a silent book. Not only because it has no words in it: it’s silent because silence is the sensitive quality of image, transcends from all its characters, players in stories with clear effects but unknown causes. Silent is the house on which the rails go through, in the image right after the cover, the house that raises in the night showing its wrecked foundations as roots to the indifferent look of a chicken, silent is the farmer on a carpet of eggs or stones keeping a chicken whose neck he just broke, not so far a gas station watching dull nothing, silent are the kids, the families. Palindromes is a black tale in which nothing is what it seems, a tale in which good and evil mingle and judgement is wiped out. Dimensions cm. 23x33 26 pages hand screenprinted and handbound. 2012

Banzai Horror
288 pagine di cui 112 a colori
Copertina serigrafata di Jean Luc Navette su carta nera Rivoli da 300 grammi.
Include 1 poster di Tim Odland e il manuale Ikea di Ed Harrington.
180 artisti tra i quali Chris Mars, Navette, Melki etc. etc.
666 copie

BANZAI IX
MAD SERIES

BANZAI IX is almost 400 pages of uncompromising/uncompressing art + 32 pages of PHENAKISTISCOPES + a pencil + a bug + 1 sticker page! Rounded corners and jaspage neon pink!
Cover by WINSHLUSS (Vincent Paronnaud), golden fawn 2009 (Angoulême) with the biggest comic strip on earth "PINOCCHIO", co-director of the movie PERSEPOLIS.
100 Artists / 100% Authentic / 100 Flourish !
1,7 Kg on a thickness of 3cm!

BANZAI VII
MAD SERIES

200p + 50 colors !
Discover the ombro-cinema, 60 participants!
Cover made by Elzo Durt, 7 colors screenprint by the workshop MAD SERIES + ombro layer!
Numbered 500ex hand!

BANZAI VIII
MAD SERIES

214p + 90p colors!
Thermochromic cover (BAULT) with screenprint 5 colors (MAD SERIES)!
Poster BURAK DAK + 13 Fold-ins of exceptions!
Packaged in a silkscreened box, numbered !
500ex.

THE HIDDEN THINGS
by Nora.

Inside us there are things that work in secret, appearing
with perfect timing, following dirt paths hidden by leaves.
It matters little whether they choose sleep or wakefulness
to manifest themselves: the center of collective interest is
the operation of excavation and restitution in the light of
this elusive portion of feeling.
The tools, in this case, are pencils, squeegees and
brushes; we proceed through scraps and attempts,
until the most complete and disarming overview
of the (re)emerged lands, in the form of cartography.

This project was entirely conceived and created by Nora
in the months of September and October 2024, between
Rome and Carrara.
Edited, hand-printed and hand-bound by Nora and Juan
Carlos Allende in Carrara in the La Luce Rossa Art
Printing House, on behalf of Tabularasa Edizioni.
Introduction by Simone Lucciola and Stefano Dazzi
Dvořák.
Translations with the assistance of Richard Usher.

The Hidden Things has a print run of 100 signed and
numbered copies.
The entire cover and the 5 screenprints (31x31.5 cm)
are printed by hand, signed and numbered from 1 to 100
on Favini Biancoflash ivory paper.
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Totem by Nora
Totem is a book created, written and illustrated by Nora. An exciting and unforgettable inner journey that the reader cannot avoid facing. Page after page, almost without uttering a word but with the sole force of the very powerful images, the book challenges you and continues to do so, in an ever new form, every time you choose to undertake the journey through its pages. Nora, an extraordinary artist capable of speaking with her art to the deepest part of each of us, has chosen to share this precious work. Thus was born the first comic that as Grafica-X we decided to self-produce and distribute, in 500 unique, signed and numbered copies, like a small treasure, a piece of art, to be experienced, shared and cherished. Totem is a story whose protagonist is a child without an identity, who wanders in a world dominated by nature. During his journey he finds himself faced with an unknown figure who begs him to stop: a Totem. The child is a wild animal, free and devoid of any form of bond. The Totem, on the other hand, has deep, hard and complicated roots. The child is what the totem is no longer, his last contact with that freedom and lightness of the past. The totem and the child have one heart, in different places of time. The desire to grow, to run to get to something, and the desire to go back. Unable to hold him back, he resorts to the violence of words, a violence that the child does not know but which he will learn with time and experience in the forest. It is right there that he finds shelter from the arrows shot from the totem and where something will begin that will change him forever.
Nora was born in Monterotondo in 1995. She studied painting and subsequently illustration and art publishing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She collaborates with various publishing houses and magazines for graphic novels, art editions and illustrated books and as a 2D animator for music videos and animated short films. She currently works as an illustrator and painter in Rome.
Illustrated book, 62 pages, format 29.7 x 21 cm, hard cover. Limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered. Distributed by Grafica-X from June 2023

Totem by Nora
Totem is a book created, written and illustrated by Nora. An exciting and unforgettable inner journey that the reader cannot avoid facing. Page after page, almost without uttering a word but with the sole force of the very powerful images, the book challenges you and continues to do so, in an ever new form, every time you choose to undertake the journey through its pages. Nora, an extraordinary artist capable of speaking with her art to the deepest part of each of us, has chosen to share this precious work. Thus was born the first comic that as Grafica-X we decided to self-produce and distribute, in 500 unique, signed and numbered copies, like a small treasure, a piece of art, to be experienced, shared and cherished. Totem is a story whose protagonist is a child without an identity, who wanders in a world dominated by nature. During his journey he finds himself faced with an unknown figure who begs him to stop: a Totem. The child is a wild animal, free and devoid of any form of bond. The Totem, on the other hand, has deep, hard and complicated roots. The child is what the totem is no longer, his last contact with that freedom and lightness of the past. The totem and the child have one heart, in different places of time. The desire to grow, to run to get to something, and the desire to go back. Unable to hold him back, he resorts to the violence of words, a violence that the child does not know but which he will learn with time and experience in the forest. It is right there that he finds shelter from the arrows shot from the totem and where something will begin that will change him forever.
Nora was born in Monterotondo in 1995. She studied painting and subsequently illustration and art publishing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She collaborates with various publishing houses and magazines for graphic novels, art editions and illustrated books and as a 2D animator for music videos and animated short films. She currently works as an illustrator and painter in Rome.
Illustrated book, 62 pages, format 29.7 x 21 cm, hard cover. Limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered. Distributed by Grafica-X from June 2023

IL CANE MANGIAVA SOLO FARFALLE by Nora & Lorenzo Marvica
The dog only ate butterflies is a comic written by Lorenzo Marvica and illustrated by Nora, published by pièdimosca edizioni as part of its CATRAME series, dedicated to comics and illustrated books. Alex, the protagonist, is a shy and introverted child. Following the death of his father, he begins to write down his memories in a diary, in an attempt to exorcise and deal with the pain he feels. Alex's account is highly ungrammatical, at times incomprehensible, the periods1 and places overlap so much that they become deformed, completely altering the timeline and the characters he narrates about. However, the clear thread within Alex's story is the experience of mourning: his approach to the illness, to the disappearance of living beings (his goldfish, the neighbor's dog that gives the volume its title, his father ), to the pain and confusion of loss. It is the request, by a child who approaches death for the first time, to understand why such things happen. Lorenzo Marvica managed to script a short, but intense and impactful fairy tale, without a linear narration of events: and Nora, with her pastel line, which seems sketchy and dirty but at the same time extremely precise and refined, manages to convey it fully , affecting the reader in a profound way, moving his emotions, making him fully perceive the emotions of the young protagonist. The edition is very pleasant, resistant and easy to handle. The binding and paper weight allow you to fully enjoy the illustrations and fully immerse yourself in the story without ever risking ruining or damaging the volume.
The dog only ate butterflies Lorenzo Marvica, Nora Pièdimosca editions, 2023 100 pages, flexible cover, color – €22.00 ISBN: 9791280289315

Nora was born in Monterotondo in 1995. She studied painting and subsequently illustration and art publishing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She collaborates with various publishing houses and magazines for graphic novels, art editions and illustrated books and as a 2D animator for music videos and animated short films. She currently works as an illustrator and painter in Rome.