Walkabout, published by Marsilio Arte and Fondazione Cologni, is the final product of a project conceived by Margherita Pincioni, with photographs by Matteo Cirenei and graphic design by Leonardo Sonnoli. Published on the occasion of Franco and Adele Cologni's 90th birthday.
Walkabout. Viaggio onirico nella creatività milanese is the logbook of a journey that began in Milan in 2013 and was inspired by the ritual path that Australian aborigines take in search of experiences, contacts and new resources. The book was written, drawn and manipulated, sequentially by designers, architects, illustrators, photographers and stylists, who gradually built a geographical map of human and artistic relationships, starting from a notebook that has now become a unique publication.
The artists and creatives who took part in the project are, as the author Margherita Pincioni says, more than thirty of the ‘most interesting and varied names on the Milanese cultural scene’. The book's uniqueness and originality have been preserved even in the printing process: the three-colour background print run has continuously undergone ink alteration, resulting in ‘wrong and unique’ prints, resulting in different covers for each copy. Walkabout, printed by Grafiche Antiga, is a homage of the Milanese artists to their city, an itinerant book, which has moved from place to place, entering into relationship with various and different environments, preserving its own identity and specific characteristics. The main characteristic of each of Matteo Cirenei's shots is the lack of sharpness of the faces photographed: the face is never recognisable, it is never in focus, but always moved or covered by something; the focal point is the body interacting with the book, always present in the image.
