DOUBLE MEANING 4. THE INK AND THE COLOR

The Giuliano Briganti Library and Phototheque renews the appointment with the biennial DOUBLE MEANING, the group exhibition of artist books now in its 4th edition, titled INK AND COLOR, characterized by the customary play of exchange and intertwining between pictorial expression and narrative expression, as experienced in previous editions.

In this edition of DOUBLE MEANING one enters 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 dedicated themselves to painting 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 single sentence contained within them, and then translate the emotions aroused into sign and color, on the pages of their artist's book.

The exhibition INK AND COLOR, as in previous editions of DOUBLE MEANING, got underway in November 2025, in the exhibition spaces of Libri Liberi-Associazione Culturale Vittorio Rossi in Florence, a place combining a bookshop, café and small theatre, which has become a point of reference for scholars and artists, also through the publishing house Libri Liberi Editore, which was responsible for producing the exhibition catalogue.