La terra metafisica
Artist's Book - Original gelatin silver print
Specifications
Container
Type: Wooden container
Function: Housing of the work in its entirety
Material: Natural wood
Description:The wooden container houses and preserves the artist’s book and the inner box, constituting an integral part of the artwork itself. The material, chosen for its durability and stability, complies with museum conservation standards.
Artist’s Book
Type: Handcrafted artist’s book
Binding: Hand-stitched with linen thread
Special printing paper: Fedrigoni paper for art books
Dimensions: 30 × 23 × 6 cm
Pages: 216
Reproduced photographs: 204
Cover, back cover, and inner endpapers: Gelatin silver prints printed by the artist
Description: The artist’s book forms the conceptual core of the work. Handcrafted in its entirety, it presents a structured sequence of photographic images that articulate La terra metafisica as a unified device—non-narrative in nature, yet meditative in intent.
Box with Original Photographs
Type: Inner box
Contents:
– 10 original photographs
– Photograph size: 18 × 24 cm
– Mounted in passe-partout
Printing technique: Gelatin silver prints, printed by the artist in the darkroom
Photographic paper: Ilford MG ART 300
Description:
The photographs contained in the box are original, autonomous works. They do not function as a mere appendix to the book, but rather represent the point of greatest material concentration of the project, granting the work a definitive and collectible character.
Authenticity
Each copy of the work is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist.
The Metaphysical Land is an artist’s book by Attilio Scimone, conceived as a unified work in which photography, book form, and material presence are inseparably intertwined.
The project moves beyond the traditional notion of landscape to explore the relationship between nature, history, and time, understood as surfaces in continuous transformation.
The volume, handcrafted and housed in a wooden container, presents a sequence of images that do not describe but retain traces, marks, and stratifications of the real.
Inside, a case contains ten original gelatin silver prints, printed by the artist and mounted in passe-partout, forming the material and collectible core of the work.
The limited edition of one hundred copies, articulated through variations of the cover, reinforces the idea of a non-static work undergoing continuous metamorphosis.
The Metaphysical Land thus takes shape as a visual and temporal device for reflection, in which the book becomes a site of concentration, memory, and duration.
La terra metafisica è un libro d’artista di Attilio Scimone concepito come opera unitaria in cui fotografia, forma editoriale e materia dialogano in modo inscindibile.
Il progetto supera l’idea tradizionale di paesaggio per indagare la relazione tra natura, storia e tempo, intesi come superfici in continua trasformazione.
Il volume, realizzato artigianalmente e custodito in un contenitore in legno, raccoglie una sequenza di immagini che non descrivono, ma trattengono tracce, segni e stratificazioni del reale.
All’interno, un cofanetto accoglie dieci fotografie originali ai sali d’argento, stampate dall’autore e montate in passe-partout, che costituiscono il nucleo materiale e collezionistico dell’opera.
L’edizione limitata di cento esemplari, articolata in varianti di copertina, rafforza l’idea di un lavoro non statico ma in continua metamorfosi.
La terra metafisica si configura così come un dispositivo di riflessione visiva e temporale, in cui il libro diventa luogo di concentrazione, memoria e durata.
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