SECOND LIFE
title: Shelfmark - 592.OTH.BOLLINO
subject: Street
description: A book about weather worn posters, composed of more than 100 selected pictures taken in the last ten years in London and other cities in Europe and Asia. Posters, and in particular, advertising posters, are all around us, they have a single and well defined scope: to convey a message for a short amount of time. Then they’re left, exposed to the elements, useless, until they are removed or replaced. The artistic reaction to that is the capacity to find beauty in the spontaneous artistic value the torn posters gain, making the city a free and immense open-air museum. Second life is about the beauty the torn posters gain just before disappearing, like the agave plant that produces only one flower just before its death.
creator: Guido Bollino
publisher: BITT - Self published
date: 2023
format: Case Bound book with matt laminated cover and gloss spot UV Endpapers onto 170gms Uncoated paper, 140 inside pages onto 170gsm Silk paper. Texts in English and Italian