{"product_id":"linguaggio-e-guerra","title":"Linguaggio è guerra","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Linguaggio è guerra” (Language is War) is an artist’s book comprising a selection of photographs sourced by Fabio Mauri from English and German war magazines. Each photograph is stamped with the words “Language is war” and arranged in compositions that deliberately attenuate its emotional charge. Through this process of appropriation and recontextualization, Mauri investigates the ideological uses of language, revealing its capacity to function as a weapon. The artist explains the logic behind his visual semantics in an unpublished typescript, preserved by Studio Fabio Mauri in Rome:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“These are details from war magazines. Stamped, they acquire an added meaning. An act of appropriation takes place. First taken by photographers present at the events, reproduced in contexts of propaganda as partisan communications, then collected in the more neutral form of history, once again removed from their archaeological contexts, cut – that is, edited according to a new thesis – equally divided between the signs of language and the person who bears those signs, and presented anew in sequences that express an interpretive idea in a linguistic mode, the use of photographs only apparently peaceful. Language is War discusses language in a state of war.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince 1975, these photographs have also been presented as a wall-based installation in various exhibitions, extending the work’s investigation of the relationship between image, language and ideological representation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54213817860435,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Linguagio.png?v=1783338349","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/linguaggio-e-guerra","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}