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LA VALIGIA DI PINOCCHIO
Central National Library of Florence
Institutional Recognition & Museum-Grade Value
The artistic and historical value of this work is officially recognized through its permanent inclusion in the national collections of the Italian State. In October 2023, the editions dedicated to the myth of Pinocchio by Master Antonio Nocera were acquired by the Central National Library of Florence (BNCF) under official decree of the Italian Ministry of Culture (Ref. MiC_BNG-FI 00035576-P).
The work is housed within the Artist’s Book Documentation Archive (Manuscripts, Rare Books, and Special Collections Department) and is officially indexed in the National Library Service (SBN) under the following shelfmarks:
- F.D. NOCA.01The Adventures of Pinocchio – Artist’s Book
- F.D. NOCA.02Pinocchio’s Suitcase – Portfolio of graphic works with embossing/estroflexions and collage
- F.D. NOCA.03Archive Studies and Documentation
A Legacy Alongside 20th-Century Masters
Its inclusion in the BNCF places Master Nocera’s work within the very same historical archive that preserves fine art editions by 20th-century masters such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Henri Matisse, while further enriching the prestigious Collodi Special Collection, globally recognized as one of the most significant and comprehensive in existence.
COLOPHON
Artist’s book
2015
Print run:
The edition is of 125 copies numbered 1/125 in Arabic numerals, 25 copies numbered I / XXV in Roman numerals, 10 Prove d’Autore HC.
The twenty-five distinct works with Roman numerals include a single piece on mixed technique paper (fresco, acrylic and collage), size 16 × 21 cm.
The work is composed by:
The suitcase contains two volumes of “The Adventures of Pinocchio. History of a Puppet ”by Carlo Collodi: one in Italian, first complete edition of the text, published by the Carlo Collodi National Foundation; another in English translated by Peter M. D. Panton.
The volumes are printed by Matteo Battaglia in Bologna on 150 g pure cotton paper from the Cartiera Magnani di Pesci, size 24 × 33 cm, illustrated with 16 lithographic reproductions. Each volume and each suitcase shows the numbering and autograph signature of the Artist Antonio Nocera.
Characteristics of the work:
On the cover of each of the two volumes, an extroflection is imprinted, made on 600 g cotton paper, numbered and signed by the Artist. Inside the suitcase, moreover, there are two portfolios: one, on the cover shows a monochrome extroflection, with a transition in carborundum, made on 600 g cotton paper, size 48 × 69 cm, numbered and signed by the Artist , which contains 9 paper découpè à la main, hand watercolored, with a passage in carborundum, on 600 g cotton paper, 33 × 48 cm size, numbered and signed by the Artist; another one, on the cover shows a monochrome extroflection, with a passage in carborundum, containing in turn 9 monochrome extroflections, always with a passage to carborundum, plus another 6 monochrome extroversions entitled “A tavola con Pinocchio”, on cotton paper 600 g, 33 × 48 cm format, numbered and signed by the Artist.
All the works are printed on Cartavenezia, specially created for this edition, with a chalcographic press by Fernando Masone in Venice.