'Inventario 19' opens with a cover dedicated to the palette – an artist’s tool and the symbol of a certain way of making art – accompanied by a text by Franco Toselli. Marta Elisa Cecchi recounts 'Exercises in style' of the German conceptual artist Florian Slotawa and his work 'Garden Tools', a reflection on the ready-made and the potential of serial variation. Stefania Di Maria offers an extensive reflection on the frame, seeing this device as a threshold and a field of free artistic experimentation. In parallel, Andrea Pinotti examines the work of Cecé Casile, who for over forty years has been designing and crafting frames in close relation to the artworks they will hold, in particular photographs by masters such as Luigi Ghirri and Arno Hammacher. Chiara Fauda Pichet recalls the poetic project of the sugar cube Le Bateau Ivre, conceived by Enrico Azzimonti and Jordi Pigem. The Absolutes section features a critical contribution by Alessia Righi on Armando Testa’s masterpiece Segno Croce, and one by Mario Piazza retracing Armando Milani’s celebrated peace posters. Michele Calzavara reconstructs the original professional trajectory of the studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, while Giulio Iacchetti describes and sketches a series of table clocks. Martina Costa gathers a series of Judicious Pairings revolving around the sign X, and Damiano Gullì explores the expressive freedom of Nathalie Du Pasquier’s painterly research.
