CUORE VELATO (100 copies numbered and signed)

Valentino Barachini
CUORE VELATO (100 copies numbered and signed)

Photographs: Valentino Barachini

Publisher: Origini Edizioni

204 pages

Pictures: 102

Year: 2019

Comments: Paperback binding, 16,5 x 22,5 cm, with a small issue hand-sewed in a cardboard box. Texts in Italian and English. Edition of 100 copies, numbered and signed. Photos, design and handcrafted realisation by Valentino Barachini. Copywriting by Matilde Vittoria Laricchia. English translations by Massimiliano Barachini.

This photobook represents the synthesis of years of reflection on oriental art and culture, culminating in a long journey to Japan on the footsteps of Shodo calligraphy discipline. Through a ruthless and independent eye, this story seeks to delve into the depths of a culture, exposing the most remote corners of things, in homage to Shinto animism that more than anything represents the key to these places. "Cuore velato" has a chiasmus structure and can be read in two directions, starting also from the end - as in Japanese way. It tries to discover a world, to understand it using its own categories: low profile, almost subdued. To discover this world, Barachini celebrates it and, at the same time, questions it, but its deep core -the heart- finally remains veiled anyway.

This book is the brother and the evolution of “Finchè tornerai terra” (about Ethiopia): similar formats, the same cardboard box, the same “in cage” vision.