‘Alphabet’ a book by Ezio D’Agostino
BY FRANCESCA ORSI
The book ‘Alphabet’ is not just content, it is also a method, precise and well-designed to show its contents. Nearly a scientific method. An alphabetical sorting of 26 images, an archaeological analysis of a collective experience in which everything is rhythmically cadenced. A structure, that of Les Halles in Paris - shopping center built in 1979 on the ruins of the former general markets - now under reconstruction to adapt to a contemporary vision, and other aesthetic and practical criterions.
Ezio d'Agostino immortalizes the remains of this building, what is left, and classifies them in a book / archive. The romantic and evocative flavor of memory, and the versatility of a survey aimed at revealing any porosity of the past, blend harmoniously.
As in the trunk of a cut tree, the rings that appear engraved on the inside speak of its longevity. Layers that have given strength, and added material to its bark. And maybe for centuries they have covered what was underneath without deleting it. Only by means of a transverse eye, capable of penetrating the time in its horizontality, the individual pieces that make up the whole can rise to the surface. And so did Ezio D'Agostino with the details of this past, once lived and loved, and now obsolete in this present.
INFO:
First Edition
250 copies
23.7 cm x 32.0 cm
56 pages
Bodonian Hardback – Handstamped
Translucent colored inserts
Offset printed on GardaMatt Art