{"id":6118,"date":"2018-05-11T21:29:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T19:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marottaeditori.com\/?p=6118"},"modified":"2018-05-11T21:29:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T19:29:03","slug":"bolaffi-playing-cards-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/bolaffi-playing-cards-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing cards: suits and figures for Bolaffi’s Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Spades, Knight, Queen, King, and obviously Jack. This is not a four color deck, but the Bolaffi’s series of covers with playing cards. Signed by\u00a0Rafael Alberti, Mauro Reggiani,\u00a0Concetto Pozzati, Achille Perilli, Vladimir Velickovic, Claudio Parmiggiani, Flavio Costantini<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Ben Vautier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Hearts<\/a>\u00a0holds the signature of Rafael Alberti<\/strong>, Spanish poet and painter of italian origins. He was a true antifranchist and due to his political envolvement, he spent almost fourty years on exile in France, Argentine and eventually Italy. He managed to come back to his country just when Caudillo\u00a0 died.<\/p>\n

\"Carte<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Diamonds<\/a>\u00a0is an artwork of\u00a0Mauro Reggiani<\/strong>, who also signed Zero of Bolaffi’s\u00a0Arabic Numbers.<\/a>\u00a0 Originary of Nonantola, he is one of the major protagonists of non figurative art in Italy. (He is indeed among the signers of the First Manifesto of Abstractism<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\"Carte<\/p>\n

For the\u00a0Clubs,<\/a>\u00a0Concetto Pozzati<\/strong>\u00a0picks a representation of the suit and a rose. He was born close to Padova, but he lived in Bologna. During his life, Pozzati was a painter, a teacher, educator, and even the council member of culture in Bologna (1993\/96). After an informal approach, he went for the\u00a0Pop Art<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Surrealism.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Carte<\/p>\n

In Spades <\/strong>there is the unique brush of\u00a0Achille Perilli<\/strong>,\u00a0Gruppo Forma 1 <\/strong>and\u00a0Age d’Or Gallery ‘<\/strong><\/em>s founder. Perilli is the point of reference for abstractism in Italy, characterized by\u00a0personal geometric shapes and bright colors preferred by the artist to euclidean geometry.<\/p>\n

\"Carte<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Knight<\/a>\u00a0of Bolaffi playing cards is signed by\u00a0Vladimir Velickovic<\/strong>, who was born in Serbia in 1935, but lived and worked in Paris. Gratuated in Architecture at the University of Belgrado, he is one of the most famous artists of the\u00a0narrative figuration movement.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Carte<\/p>\n

Claudio Parmeggiani<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of the\u00a0Queen<\/a>. Born in Luzzara, is the artistic father of extremely iconic installations made out of various materials. His research gets close to Poor and Conceptual Art alike, expressing itself with an unusual language.<\/p>\n

\"Carte<\/p>\n

Flavio Costantini’s <\/strong>King resembles the classic look of the playing cards but in its “double” the sovereign finds a skeleton as in a\u00a0memento mori<\/em>. Born in Rome, Costantini has been a self-taught painter and illustrator. He has combined figuration with eclectic perspectives and irregular proportions.<\/p>\n

\"Carte<\/p>\n

Eventually\u00a0Ben Vautier<\/a>\u00a0is the author of the Jocker. Born in Naples, he traveled for a long time, representing one of the major exponents of the anti-art. Fluxus Active member and multifaceted artist, he was ironic and provocative in the research of the Truth.<\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Spades, Knight, Queen, King, and obviously Jack. This is not a four color deck, but the Bolaffi’s series of covers with playing cards. Signed by\u00a0Rafael Alberti, Mauro Reggiani,\u00a0Concetto Pozzati, Achille Perilli, Vladimir Velickovic, Claudio Parmiggiani, Flavio Costantini\u00a0and\u00a0Ben Vautier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,248,371],"tags":[363,368],"class_list":["post-6118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carte-da-gioco-en","category-multiples-of-art-series","category-playing-cards","tag-achille-perilli-en","tag-flavio-costantini-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/copertine-Bolaffi-le-carte-da-gioco.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}