{"title":"Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"inventario-stagionale-2025","title":"Seasonal Inventory: 2025","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"230\"\u003e Seasonal Inventory is the book that collects the results of the photographic practice of the same name carried out in San Teodoro in the summer of 2025: approximately 1200 portraits that have composed a sensitive map of the community in its present time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"635\"\u003e The project, conceived and conducted by Gianluca Vassallo, is part of one of the core areas of his research, where photography and relational practices intertwine to the point of overlapping. Launched in 2014 with \u003cem data-start=\"435\" data-end=\"450\"\u003eFree Portrait\u003c\/em\u003e , this investigation has evolved into dozens of other projects, based on a device for documenting humanity that adopts a formally egalitarian, horizontal, and socialist approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"1208\"\u003eAt its core is the rejection of portraiture as a tool of representation available to the subject. In a world of \"self-aggrandizing\" subjects, the image does not aim to confirm a desired identity, but to restore truth, wonder, and dignity to the body, freeing it from the logic of objectification and performance. The portrait, thus, reclaims the unexpected, that in-between time that separates what we know about \u003cem\u003eourselves\u003c\/em\u003e from what we would like others to know about us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"1716\" data-end=\"1945\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e The volume, with a canvas cover and high-quality printing, is accompanied by texts by Gianluca Vassallo and Maurizio Bosa and presents the practice in its dual nature: archive and public ritual, document and relationship, form and community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gianluca Vassallo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56285766189387,"sku":null,"price":48.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1008\/2392\/5067\/files\/X5A4355.jpg?v=1768230286"},{"product_id":"occidente-2016","title":"West: 2016","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"215\"\u003eWest. Public Diary is a photography book by \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eGianluca Vassallo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e , born from an artist residency in New York, and takes the form of a visual and narrative diary of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"217\" data-end=\"612\"\u003e The volume brings together 56 photographs and 56 short stories, composing an intimate and political journey through contemporary Western society, observed through bodies, gazes, and chance encounters. The images, direct and unadorned, convey the human presence as a measure of space and landscape, allowing a fragile, everyday, and unspectacular beauty to emerge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp data-start=\"614\" data-end=\"907\"\u003eConceived as a valuable editorial object, \u003cem data-start=\"657\" data-end=\"685\"\u003eOccidente. Diario Pubblico\u003c\/em\u003e combines photography and writing in a rapid rhythm, where each image interacts with the text without ever illustrating it. A book that is read and viewed like a public notebook: personal in its gaze, collective in its meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"614\" data-end=\"907\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e An ideal work for those who collect contemporary photography, artist books, and visual research that questions the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"614\" data-end=\"907\"\u003e Photographs and texts by Gianluca Vassallo, Curatorial text by Roberto Cremascoli, Graphic design by Artemio Croatto \u003cbr data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1056\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"1074\" data-end=\"1197\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gianluca Vassallo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56285773660491,"sku":null,"price":32.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1008\/2392\/5067\/files\/X5A4356.jpg?v=1768230337"},{"product_id":"occidente-2016-copia","title":"AMERICANADA","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"453\" data-start=\"97\"\u003e Or: America and the Wall Street Monkey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"453\" data-start=\"97\"\u003e To celebrate White Box Studio's 10th anniversary, a new art gallery has opened in the heart of San Teodoro, in the same building that was the first headquarters of the collective founded by Gianluca Vassallo and, before that, his parents' workplace: a symbolic space that began a journey that has brought the studio's photography worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp data-end=\"757\" data-start=\"455\"\u003eThis catalogue accompanies the inaugural exhibition AMERICANADA, a deliberately uncurated project: an open dialogue between author and work, in which the photographic production process is part of the work itself and the images become empirical evidence of what the work seeks to demonstrate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"1158\" data-start=\"759\"\u003e The exhibition features 133 photographs and 1 video. The limited-edition, 60-page catalog includes the full text written by Gianluca Vassallo to guide visitors through the exhibition: a personal and political reflection on America, the West, and chance as a method, transforming the exhibition into a possible film, written by what we observe and what we are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"1301\" data-start=\"1160\"\u003e Limited edition. 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