Rizzoli Lizard (30/11/2021) I am really excited! On November 30th, twenty years since the publication of Manhattan Unfurled and almost 26 years to the day from when I left Milan to move to New York, a journey of sorts is coming full circle: Rizzoli Lizard will publish the accordion-format book of Milan’s skyline titled Ecco […]
Exactly twenty years ago today, on October 28th, 2001, CBS Sunday Morning aired a five-minute piece on Manhattan Unfurled. It was the result of a long collaboration with producer and writer Ed Forgotson, who had followed Matteo during more than a year while he worked on the project. Both the filming of the actual interview […]
Random House, October 2001 Twenty years ago this month Random House published Manhattan Unfurled, a 22-foot-long accordion book with 2 drawings depicting the the east and west sides of Manhattan accompanied by a wonderful essay by Paul Goldberger. The instant the book came out, it was already a memory of another era.
In Conversation with Dina Nayeri Inventing Truth with Words and Lines Whether in art or literature, what does it mean to tell the truth, or a version of the truth? And what might it mean to invent the truth in the service of a higher truth? Looking to Matteo Pericoli’s Windows On Elsewhere: 60 Refugees, 60 […]
Camila Raznovich intervista Matteo Pericoli durante la puntata di Kilimangiaro (Rai 3) andata in onda lo scorso 22 Agosto. Si parla di Finestre sull’altrove: 60 vedute per 60 rifugiati, il libro pubblicato di recente da Il Saggiatore, e di vari lavori di Matteo che, a partire dai disegni-rotoli dello skyline di New York e Londra, […]
The official website of the Windows on Elsewhere project is online. Windows on Elsewhere: 60 Refugees, 60 Views is a book, exhibition, and limited-edition print project with a collection of 60 window view drawings by Matteo Pericoli, depicting the present window views of sixty persons who were forced to flee their countries. The drawings are […]
Photographs from the opening of the Windows on Elsewhere exhibit at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (Italy) (Courtesy of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo)
Finally, after 3 years of work, “Windows on Elsewhere: 60 Refugees, 60 Views”, a project I worked on with Art for Amnesty, will be exhibited in Turin. The project is in support of Amnesty International Italia on the occasion of Amnesty’s 60th anniversary. On Wednesday, May 26, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo will inaugurate the exhibit of […]
I was recently at Lavazza’s headquarters in Turin for the installation of my sky(time)line mural drawing of the building site — from a fourth century Paleo-Christian basilica to an impressive 1800s power station, to the new “Nuvola” building.
63 vues de la Grosse Pomme New York de ma fenêtre – the French edition of “The City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York” – is here! (And it’s beautiful)