LA VALIGIA DI PINOCCHIO

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.