€ 11,05
Faithful reproduction of the poster originally published for the first edition of Take Your Pleasure Seriously, the monograph dedicated to Luca Barcellona. The celebrated calligrapher offers us an exploration of the shape of the letters of the alphabet in his typical taste.
50 × 70 cm
Paper Artic Volume White 130 g
First edition November 2012
-15% Off“Writing becomes art and individual letters take on a life of their own”.
– La Repubblica
The first published monograph on the artist is now available in a new, larger softcover edition. The book features hundreds of drawings including commissioned works, personal projects, performances and many never-before-seen works. Barcelona is internationally regarded as one of the most important lettering artists working today. Ideal for calligraphers, graphic designers, type designers, art directors, advertising professionals, illustrators and students.
For Luca Barcellona, letters are the building blocks of his creations. From Carolingian to tags, from quill pen to spray can, Barcellona takes the ancient craft of lettering to new heights with the inventiveness and talent of a contemporary virtuoso. His surprising, expressive and original forms and compositions open up unexplored territory, laying the foundations for a new style of lettering. Barcelona’s versatile work is admired and commissioned by major brands in fashion, music, film and publishing.
With contributions by: Charles ‘Chaz’ Bojórquez, legendary urban artist from Los Angeles, who began his career in the Chicano scene of the late 1960s and over the years has successfully transitioned from the street to the art gallery; Giovanni De Faccio, professional calligrapher, typeface designer (his best known is Rialto DF), and founding member of the Associazione Calligrafica Italiana. He is internationally renowned for his teaching and dedication to the promotion of calligraphy. He teaches calligraphy and type design at the New Design University in St. Pölten, Austria. Nicola ‘Dee Mo’ Peressoni made his debut in the late 1980s as an illustrator of European hardcore punk covers, posters and fanzines and went on to work in hip hop, becoming a pioneering figure in graffiti and Italian rap. His writings have been published in “Max”, “Rumore” and “Rolling Stone”.
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Texts by Luca Barcellona, Giovanni De Faccio and Nicola ‘Dee Mo’ Peressoni
Interview by Chaz Bojórquez
Original book design by Pitis
Paperback edition with revised layout by Bunker
23 × 33 cm
240 pages
Over 400 full color illustrations
Paperback
English/Italian
Isbn 978-88-98030-02-6
First published March 2016
-15% OffLuca Barcellona is an internationally known calligrapher, whom we are used to knowing for his immediate language, made of sinuous letters that bring calligraphic art into the contemporary world. Lost in Strokes is a publication about the artist’s current work, which, however, differs from the ‘Barcelona world’ we all know.
The book speaks an unprecedented language, on the borderline between asemic writing and painting, which photographs Barcelona’s expressive, stylistic and emotional evolution and his work of very recent times, demonstrating once again how for the author writing represents a dense, meditative, certainly artistic act. Letters for the first time are transformed into urban landscapes that create new pictorial alphabets, skylines start from types, are nourished by writing, but also take their distance from it to become something else, much more complex, as if to summarise the artist’s journey so far.
Certainly “using writing, making writing, and partly overcoming writing itself is an urgent issue in our contemporary times” (Fabiola Naldi), and once again Luca Barcellona positions himself as one of the most interesting artists on the international calligraphy scene, who indeed each time seems to push the boundary of the discipline a little further, trespassing, through an expressive metamorphosis, into contemporary art.
Also available in limited edition: Lost in Strokes – Limited Edition
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Texts by Fabiola Naldi and Luca Barcellona
Soundtrack by Dj Craim
Book design by Bunker
21 × 28 cm
48 pages
Gloo bound
Italian
Isbn 978-88-98030-46-0
First published February 2022
-15% OffThe special edition boxed contains, in addition to the volume, three 30 × 60 cm posters and the vinyl LP with Dj Craim’s specially reissued soundtrack. Issued in 100 copies, it is available only on our website.
Luca Barcellona is an internationally known calligrapher, whom we are used to knowing for his immediate language, made of sinuous letters that bring calligraphic art into the contemporary world. Lost in Strokes is a publication about the artist’s current work, which, however, differs from the ‘Barcelona world’ we all know.
The book speaks an unprecedented language, on the borderline between asemic writing and painting, which photographs Barcelona’s expressive, stylistic and emotional evolution and his work of very recent times, demonstrating once again how for the author writing represents a dense, meditative, certainly artistic act. Letters for the first time are transformed into urban landscapes that create new pictorial alphabets, skylines start from types, are nourished by writing, but also take their distance from it to become something else, much more complex, as if to summarise the artist’s journey so far.
Certainly “using writing, making writing, and partly overcoming writing itself is an urgent issue in our contemporary times” (Fabiola Naldi), and once again Luca Barcellona positions himself as one of the most interesting artists on the international calligraphy scene, who indeed each time seems to push the boundary of the discipline a little further, trespassing, through an expressive metamorphosis, into contemporary art.
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Texts by Fabiola Naldi and Luca Barcellona
Soundtrack by Dj Craim
Book design by Bunker
21 × 28 cm
48 pages
Gloo bound
Italian
Isbn 978-88-98030-46-0
First published February 2022
-20% OffA careful selection of books and posters by the famous italian calligrapher.
Use the discount to dive into the work of Luca Barcellona.
The bundle includes the paperback edition of the first monograph published on the artist, the poster created for the original publication of the volume and the catalogue of the exhibition «Lost in Strokes», held at the Patricia Amorcida gallery in Milan.
-15% OffThe poster collects a hundred images of trees, printed in scale 1:200, with and without foliage, carefully selected from those enclosed in the homonymous volume. Replica of the original poster of L’Architettura degli Alberi from the exhibition of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 1982, corrected in the plates and updated in the graphics. The only difference from the original version is the addition of the
green color.
The ink drawings faithfully return the peculiarities of the tree species depicted, allowing us to enjoy their variety and specificity. The scientific nomenclature of each tree is accompanied by vulgar terminology. The images are numbered so as to allow the observer an easy identification of the trees and not only to appreciate their indisputable beauty.
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Original illustrations by Studio Leonardi-Stagi
Design (based on the original layout from 1982) Bunker
70 × 100 cm
Paper: Fedrigoni Arena Smooth Natural 170 g
Offset print 2 Pantone colors
Isbn 978-88-98030-61-3
First published April 2023
«Less words more actions to survive».
Armando Milani poster, part of the triptych with «Peace» and «War».
50 70 cm
Paper Fedrigoni Arena Smooth Natural 170 g
First edition November 2023
-15% OffFaithful reproduction of the poster originally spread for the limited edition of Tupigrafia. 2000-2020 Anthology. The four-handed work by Luca Barcellona and Claudio Rocha, made with typographical printing and calligraphic inserts, is the first in a series of three posters.
30 × 42 cm
Paper Fedrigoni Arena Natural Rough 170 g
First edition September 2021
«A message of love for the world».
Armando Milani poster, part of the triptych with War and React.
50 70 cm
Fedrigoni Arena Smooth White 170 g paper
First edition November 2023
