DOUBLE MEANING 4. THE INK AND THE COLOR

The Giuliano Briganti Library and Photo Archive renews its appointment with the biennial DOUBLE SENSE, the group exhibition of artists' books now in its 4th edition, entitled INK AND COLOR, characterized by the customary play of exchange and interweaving between painterly and narrative expression, as already experimented in previous editions.

In this edition of DOUBLE SENSE we enter the fascinating, and worthy-of-exploration, world of those artists known as painters, but far less as poets and writers: De Chirico, Toti Scialoja, Filippo de Pisis, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Savinio, Vincent Van Gogh, Suzanne Valadon, and many others, have written stories, treatises, diaries or poems. History also tells of great writers who devoted themselves to pictorial activities, such as the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, also known for her illustrations and for her singular collages.

The 37 artists participating in the exhibition project were therefore invited to follow the traces of one of these texts, or even just a phrase contained in them, and then translate the emotions aroused into mark and color on the pages of their artists' book.

The exhibition INK AND COLOR, as in previous editions of DOUBLE SENSE, began in November 2025, in the exhibition spaces of Libri Liberi - Vittorio Rossi Cultural Association in Florence, a place divided among bookstore, café and small theater, having become a point of reference for scholars and artists, also through the publishing house Libri Liberi Publisher, which is responsible for producing the exhibition catalog.

A brief mention is due to the previous editions of DOUBLE SENSE:

2018: THE REDISCOVERED BOOK (Libri Liberi, Florence – Bancarella Prize, Pontremoli, Massa Carrara-Tour de Babel gallery, Paris); 2019-2023: ITALO CALVINO. Annotated artist bibliography (Libri Liberi, Florence – Santa Maria della Scala - Giuliano Library and Giuliano Briganti Photo Library, Siena); 2024: HERMANN HESSE. The Magician's Childhood (Libri Liberi, Florence - Hermann Hesse Museum, Lugano)

SANDRO ASATIANI (Nikoloz Baratashvili), FRANCESCA BAGNOLI (Louise Bourgeois), ALESSANDRO BALDANZI (Hans Bellmer), BEATRICE BARTOLOZZI (Toti Scialoja), COSTANZA BERTI (Osvaldo Licini), MARIA CHIARA CECCONI (Kathe Kollwitz), NICOLA CIVININI (Alberto Savinio), LIDO CONTEMORI (Alberto Savinio), PAOLO DELLA BELLA (Dino Buzzati), CARLO DI GREGORIO (Edward Carey), LAURA FELICI (Etel Adnan), SILVIA FOSSATI (Salvador Dalì), ALDO FRANGIONI & DOROTEA DOLCE (William Blake), ENRICO GUERRINI (Paul Klee), REBECCA HAYWORD (Hilma af Klint), MERI IACCHI (Louise Bourgeois), ANTONELLA IACOPOZZI (Carlo Levi), CARLA LATINO (Carlo Carrà), CLAUDIA LEPORATTI (Filippo De Pisis/Giovanni Pascoli), MARLÈNE MANGOLD (Toti Scaloja), MONICA MICHELOTTI (Pablo Picasso), BARBARA NOCI (Maria Lai), MARCELLO PAOLI (Edvard Munch), SUSANNA PELLEGRINI (Fausto Melotti), ANTONELLA PIERACCINI (Wislawa Szymborska), DONATELLA PIERACCINI (Toti Scialoja), LAURA POLI (Paul Klee), PAOLA SARDONE (Carlo Levi), ANNA SONCINI (Salvador Dalì), GIOVANNA SPARAPANI (Paul Klee), MARGOT FEROLLA (Vincent Van Gogh), GUIDO LEONI (Giorgio De Chirico), PIETRO MESSINA (Henri Matisse), FRANCESCA SENZANI (Marc Chagall), CLAUDIA TRIPODI (Claudia Tripodi/Cecco Angiolieri), ISABELLA VEZZANI (Pierre Soulages), SIMONETTA ZANUCCOLI (Suzanne Valadon)