Zine:

TRENTATRÈ vol II – GIANTURCO / Carmine Covino, Gaetano Ippolito

Statement:
The file rouge of the Trentatrè fanzine is the attention to the geographical background, creating moments of dialogue and creative openness, in fact, the publication aims to document different areas of the city of Naples in order to create an artistic mapping in which different authors will confront each other by investigating the territory.

I found the notes of a musician that immediately made me think about gianturco:
The stairs must be performed
as fast as thunderbolts.
low funeral arrangements
The immediately following sextuplet
Like an excess of
Revolt.
Then the last octaves, at first
Were held back and then accelerated
More and more, like the stuggering of
a fatally wounded who then,
“falls like a body”.

The atmosphere that pervades Gianturco at night is the one that fascinated me the most, i let myself be guided by the steps of stray dog looking for food or by the smoke of a prostitute’s cigarette lit by a street lamp.
I photographed the smell of dust and the imminent feeling of the crumbling of the world.
Every street in this place is an invitation to imagine what has never been.
there are dubious forgotten architectures scattered here and there, hints of never realized ideas, carcasses of structures that are stripped of their primordial nature.
You don’t always go to this place, but you cross it very quite often, not unhurried, to go somewhere else.
Like a bridge placed over nothing, sometimes it is sporadically crossed by those who do not know where they are headed and only seek shelter for the night, with the hope, in the morning, of finding a path to follow.
However, there is an almost palpable need to observe this area of the city so different from the others, so mysterious.

Edition data:
edition of 100
Inside 32 pages front and back + cover
Paper Fredigoni Materica Gesso 120gr.
Cover: Paper Sirio Black 295 gr., Art work Davide Arpaia
Graphic designer THE DOCKS
Text THE DOCKS + Carmine Covino, Gaetano Ippolito

Zine:

Trentatrè -Bagnoli- / Pasquale Autiero, Andrea de franciscis, David de lacruz

Statement:
The file rouge of the Trentatrè fanzine is the attention to the geographical background, creating moments of dialogue and creative openness, in fact, the publication aims to document different areas of the city of Naples in order to create an artistic mapping in which different authors will confront each other by investigating the territory.

Bagnoli is the largest district of Naples and an integral part of the Campi Flegrei area, whose
volcanic activity has marked the boundaries and the entire geomorphological structure
of the site.
The neighborhood has developed around the great iron and steel plant that changed its
Conformation, making it anomalous compared to the rest of the city.
The industrial area, later called Ilva Italsider, was written off in 1992. It was initially created to make use of the 1904 special law, which benefitted economically depressed areas of the country and started its production in 1910 employing about 1200 workers.
Bagnoli had already been the site of some plants in the second half of the nineteenth
Century. In 1905 the plant stood out on an initial surface of 120 hectares until reaching 200 hectares in 1977 with nearly 8000 employees.
The numerous anthropic transformations have conditioned the functional aspect of the original continuity of the area, profoundly altering also the landscape.
Since 2005 a redevelopment and recovery plan was foreseen which, to date, has only been partially implemented.
In this enviroment, wooden boards nailed to the wall, metal frames and exposed pipes become
pass for other dimensions.
The gesture of the authors thus distorts the visual codes formulating an alternative imaginary in which degradation and abandonment mutates into the horizon of other worlds.

Edition data:
for the cover we chose a illustration by Martina di Gennaro created especially for the occasion whose print was entrusted to the hands ofe Gianluigi Prencipe who modeled using a unrepeatable rust color made in the Nilotype laroratory.

100 copies
15cm X 21cm
silkscreen cover, stapled insert, 36 pages
Fedrigoni Woodstock Birch, paper 225gr

 

Bio:
CARMINE COVINO I was born in Naples in 1989 and my passion for photography began 16 years ago, when I first approached with practical experiences in the darkroom, practices that I have never abandoned and that, over time, have led me to disseminate and teach these techniques through workshops and extra-curricular courses at the Art School of my city.

During my life, however, I have not always been to Naples, in fact I lived in Marseille, a city where I often return and which has given me experiences and knowledge that I consider to have been fundamental in my artistic growth, for example the contact with environments and subcultures that still influence my photographic projects.

GAETANO IPPOLITO
Gaetano Ippolito was born in Naples in 1997.
His first entry into the world of photography dates back to 2019, when he joined “PhotoLab” – a special edition of the “Laboratorio Irregolare” led by the photographer Antonio Biasiucci – for which he created “Möbius”, a series of self-portraits which were subsequently exposed to the public as part of a collective exhibition called “Openheart” (Casa della Fotografia – Villa Pignatelli, Naples, 2020).
That same year, Gaetano joined the CFI (Centro di Fotografia Indipendente – Independent Photography Center), founded by the Italian photographers Mario Spada, Biagio Ippolito, and Luca Anzani, where he mainly focused on mastering the analogical photography and darkroom development techniques.
In 2020 Gaetano realized his second work, “Untouch”, curated by Roberta Fuorvia and Mario Spada.
Currently Gaetano continues to be fully involved in his visual research.

PASQUALE AUTIERO
Photographer and poet

“Our desire is to create something stable where we live, a place to open a debate and create a community around the photographic language, a way to compare different realities without the risk of losing the link with our roots”

DAVID DE LA CRUZ
Visual artist

“I could have been in Madrid enjoying the fruits of my talent (I can desalinate seawater while painting colossal walls), but I decided to be an integral part of the cultural process for the creation and development of a movement that finally gives, to the new generation, the proper space in the contemporary art scene “

ANDREA DE FRANCISCIS
is an Italian photographer born in Naples in 1981.
After a degree in Medicine, in 2010 he started to work as a freelance photojournalist on social contemporary issues, focusing on children and women rights, religion and environment. He is currently based in New Delhi but often travels to Europe.
He has collaborated with different national and international papers such as TIME, National Geographic, Al Jazeera, GEO Magazine, El Paìs, Narratively, Il Reportage, Saga Magazine, among others. His work has been exhibited both in Italy and abroad in personal and collective exhibitions

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