Sotto le Pietre, il Sale
Sotto le Pietre, il Sale is the first publication by studio x01, founded by Giorgio Viscardi and Gabriele Rossi. Based in Milan, their studio focuses primarily on producing videos for commercial clients. This marks the beginning of their first adventure as independent art publishers, highlighting the photographic work of Giovanni Galanello on the island of San Pietro, Italy. This photographic series, limited to 100 copies, depicts the sea, rocks, seaweed, boats, nets, hands, salt, cold scales, and buildings with barely lit rooms, capturing the daily life of the fishermen on the island in the Sulcis archipelago. On the back cover, it reads (translated from the Italian):
They return when the Moon is already high. They drag the sleeping bodies into the dimly lit room. With their fingers, they rummage through the entrails. They spread the pale sacks filled with eggs on the bed of white crystals, covering the heart like in a limestone mound, a large, still warm ruby. Salt to salt. Purple streaks stain the white bed. Under the stones, in the salt, hung on threads to dry, they prepare the organs for divination.
It was designed by the studio Aisslinger Pellegrino, with a composition in AL Linea Nera for the text and AL Sigla Medium for the titles. Both are revivals of typefaces designed by Umberto Fenocchio for the Fonderia Tipografica Cooperativa in the 1960s.
Story for a book presentation at Sansecondo
