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Out of StockRêves Entrelacés EN/FR
€ 22,50The book is available only on our website or at festival venues.
Born in 1990, Amir Zand is a highly talented Iranian digital artist known for his multidisciplinary approach and unique perspective on visual art, conceptual design, and illustration. Over the past ten years, he has distinguished himself internationally, particularly in the realms of science fiction and fantasy, thanks to his visionary creativity and works characterized by a rich and unmistakable style.
Zand’s career is already filled with prestigious projects, having designed over sixty book covers and collaborated on iconic sagas such as Star Wars, Warhammer 40k, DUNE, Halo, and Mortal Engines. His work has been included in three consecutive editions of SPECTRUM: The Best in Fantastic Contemporary Art, one of the most important artistic publications dedicated to the fantasy genre. In 2020, he was listed among the 100 most esteemed illustrators in the world by the Association of Illustrators of Japan. His creations have been exhibited in prestigious museums and galleries, such as the Museo della Permanente in Milan, the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, and the Shibuya Modi Gallery in Tokyo.
The book Rêves Entrelacés is conceived as a catalog for the artist’s solo eponymous exhibition, held during the Festival International du Film de La Roche-sur-Yon in 2024, marking his first major presence in France. The collection of illustrations provides a comprehensive overview of Zand’s work, compiling all the illustrations from the exhibition and featuring an exclusive interview with the artist conducted by Melania Gazzotti and Charlotte Perriand.
Illustrations by Amir Zand
Texts by Amir Zand, Maximilien Schel, Charlotte Serrand
Translations by Mercedes Claire Gillom, Cloé Tralci
Curated by Melania Gazzotti, Charlotte Serrand
Book Design by Bunker19.5 × 26 cm
64 pages
Paperback
French/English
Isbn 978-88-98030-72-9
First edition October 2024
Patagonia IT/EN/FR
€ 35,00“It was a kind of music. Six months later I found an album of oriental paper, and I started to draw a kind of landscape score. I tried to find this music of forms, I looked for my Patagonia from the Patagonia I had crossed”.
– Lorenzo MattottiThis is not the first time that Mattotti has felt the need to make an illustrated travelogue, he had already done so in 2014, collecting a series of drawings documenting his discovery of Vietnam in a precious travel book, later published by Louis Vuitton. On Patagonia, however, the artist does not want to make a full-fledged reportage, as he had done for the eastern country; what interests him about this place is only one aspect: its boundless and virgin nature, not its inhabitants and their stories that had so fascinated storytellers such as Bruce Chatwin and Louis Sepulveda. For Mattotti, Patagonia is first and foremost a place of the mind and that is why he strips it of colour to represent it, synthesising its forms, making it almost abstract to succeed in giving us back a sensation before an image, the sensation that every man feels when he finds himself in an extreme land, in a land at the end of the world.
Edited by Melania Gazzotti, the book presents all the 24 black and white plates contained in the Nepalese paper notebook where Mattotti copied his travel notes, together with a selection of colour drawings made by the artist in a classic Moleskine® notebook while he was in Patagonia. Both notebooks are unpublished and were made between 2003 and 2004.
The world’s best-known Italian illustrator, a never-before-seen exhibition and a book to collect: Patagonia by Lorenzo Mattotti promises to be a not-to-be-missed event for all lovers of contemporary illustration and beyond.
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Edited by Melania Gazzotti
Texts by Lorenzo Mattotti, Melania Gazzotti, Jorge Zentner
Book design by Bunker28 × 15 cm
116 pages
Swiss-style hardback
Italian/English/French/Spanish
Isbn 978-88-98030-28-6
First published October 2020
