Superblast II, “Nel paese delle ultime cose”
Nel paese delle ultime cose expands the artistic researches born in the residency spaces of Manifattura Tabacchifi for the second edition of SUPERBLAST, an international call conceived and promoted by NAM (Not A Museum) and this year inspired by the theme of “the trace”. In the land of the last things forms of life, desire and resistance proliferate among the ruins. Six authors, who accompanied the development of each art project, put into words their different visions of the contemporary condition.
The contributions by Irene Adorni, Angela Balzano, Ivan Carozzi, Giulia Crispiani, Federico Di Vita, Roberto Fassone, Beatrice Favaretto, Matteo Grilli, Lorenzo Lunghi, MRZB, Davide Sgambaro, and Laura Tripaldi thus restore a necessary intermingling of critical thought and artistic work; Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni’s preface and Caterina Molteni’s afterword investigate how support for artistic practice and the device of residency can make it possible.
The catalog (in Italian, 16×24 cm, 160 pages) was published (and designed?) by Nero Editions. The design uses two typefaces from Ethan Nakache: Sprat and Nuances, both stretched just like the sans serif headlines which are set in Univers Condensed. The regular width of Univers is used for body copy.
