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Federica Patera and Andrea Sbra PeregoFiber painting: 'The City of Books'2022
2022
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The City of Books shows a map of an imaginary city made up by words: 140 quotations, taken from 40 different books and chosen following the criterion of analogy, give rise to 12 tales that compose the roads of the city.
The artwork sees literature cross over into art, exit from books, and is an homage to the transformation process that leads the reader to become author, mixing roles; reading become writing, creating an access between two actions intimately connected. Clarice Lispector, Roberto Bolaño, David Foster Wallace, Jorge Luis Borges are some of the authors who can be found in the The City of Books. The artwork is made up of three layers: denim is the base, on which a carpet of pages of books printed on cotton is fixed. The carpet is the background for a map, also in denim, and each of its streets hosts one of the 12 tales. Step by step everyone can read the 140 quotes.
The duo was officially born in 2017 with the RAR project, which focuses on the value of the analogy in literature. At the heart of their investigation is the dynamic that leads reading to become writing, and other way the user to become a creator, a maker, mixing roles.
The exchange that is established guarantees the transmission, that it goes beyond repetition and finds its completion in transformation. The eternity of an experience, whatever it is (physical, material, emotional, intellectual), is measured by its capacity to be an eternal breeding ground for discovery and knowledge.
Their work was exhibited in solo shows by art galleries, such as Raffaella De Chirico Contemporary Art in Turin and Manuel Zoia Gallery in Milan, and in Art Fair such as ArtVerona and WOP in Lugano (CH). In 2021, they were finalists in the Cramum Award. Between October 2022 and January 2023, they took part in the World Textile Biennale – Italian Act, a series of three exhibitions curated by Barbara Pavan. In January 2023 they attended their first group show in New York at the Ivy Brown Gallery.
- Creator:Federica Patera and Andrea Sbra Perego (Italian)
- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 74.8 in (190 cm)Width: 70.8 in (179.84 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU422311696642
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