flavio de marco

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Frans (vita di un paesaggista tropicale)

The book narrates the life and work of Frans Post, the first artist who painted the American landscape. In 1637, three centuries before low-cost flights and mass tourism, Frans travelled to Brazil to document the places, anticipating the desire for exoticism that would make the fortune of travel agencies. The story is told through Arturo Caravalle di Maggiano, a lawyer with a passion for technology, who chooses to spend a month’s sabbatical in Athens to write a book on the artist. Between archaeological sites and taverns with live music, Arturo will find himself entangled in a series of unpredictable scenarios. In the interweaving of these two stories, between fiction and biography, this book is also a small history of west landscape painting and a reflection on the role of images in our increasingly dematerialised digital society.

19×14 cm / 160 pages / soft cover / 2023

Luca Sossella Editore, Roma

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Futuri maestri

The book is a conversation between a painter and an art historian on the theme of painting and its evolution – with particular reference to landscape painting – in five days of direct confrontation. The publication moves from a clear proposition, that is the past is in fact our future and therefore we must establish a total contemporaneity with the past to build an existence that has a authentically human sense. The book illustration apparatus is made through a selection of details of the works cited in the text, assembled in a way that can generate parallel visual text.

21×14.5 cm / 128 pages / soft cover / 2017

Editrice Salentina, Lecce

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Qui

This volume, created in collaboration with the poet Domenico Brancale, originates from some photos about a Flavio de Marco’s work, Breve vita di un quadro, realized​​ near Pieve a Presciano in 2011. The volume develops as a dialogue between the images, ten original drawings by de Marco, and the text by Brancale, created through these images. The book is ultimately a reflection on the place of human being, a reflection on life and death through space and time of art.

16,5×24 cm / 64 pages / 2014

Edizioni l’Obliquo, Brescia

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Stella

A book about an island-that-does-not-exist, a place which would concentrate all possible diversity of the different landscapes of the world. The book invites the reader on a poetic journey through the history of western painting in the era of low-cost airlines and the planet’s new geography as redesigned by the world wide web. It is also a virtual touristic guide for a super-island of consumption and leisure, without financial or human mediation, without limitations of space and time. Stella can be considered the culmination of simulation as topographic art, as seen in Dubai with the creation of the artificial palm islands. It is the amazing surrogate of a world flattened on the horizontality of communication, one that has abandoned the depth of physical perspective.

12,5×20,5 cm / 386 pages / hardcover / 2013

Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna