MERI GORNI ​​| Ritratti in bosco

MERI GORNI ​​| EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Ritratti in bosco

Meri Gorni (Milan, 1958) lives and works in Milan. The artist uses various media, including drawing, photography, and artist's books, creating works that arise from words and transform into images. Her narratives, suspended between memory, literature, and fairy tale, move between the personal and collective spheres, creating connections between the visible and the invisible.

The catalog accompanies the exhibition Ritratti in Bosco (Portraits in the Woods, New Morone Gallery, January 23–March 14, 2025) and becomes its natural extension, like a branch reaching beyond the trunk. The pages, conceived as a territory to be explored, intertwine between images and texts, solids and voids, presence and absence.

The transparent dust jacket, which envelops the volume, bears the imprint of a branch morphing into a hand, a subtle sign that holds the catalogue together, like a gesture that welcomes and holds. The branch recalls the very heart of the exhibition: trees, observed by Gorni as beings endowed with identity and memory, become the protagonists of a silent yet vibrant tale.

Inside, among photographs of the works on display and the critical text by Nadir Daily, previously unseen elements are revealed: drawings, illustrations, and phrases handwritten by the artist, delicate traces that amplify the intimate and poetic dimension of the volume.

Transparent pages overlap with white ones, creating a play of layers and revelations, like an undergrowth where each step reveals new details. Images meet and separate, words emerge and disappear, in a subtle balance between lightness and depth.

More than a catalogue, Portraits in the Woods is a living work, an object to be leafed through in contemplation, guided by the unpredictable dialogue between signs, words, and transparencies.

Interior print on 120 g Fedrigoni XPER white paper.

Cover printed on 320 gsm Fedrigoni XPER white .

Dust jacket with flaps in 90 gr spectral white paper.

99 hand-numbered copies.

Language: Italian/English

Dimensions: 150 x 150 mm

Pages: 84

Binding: PUR saddle-stitched paperback

ISBN: 9791281457386

Graphic design: SV3 studio - Milan

Publication date: January 2025

Publisher : Poliartes Editions for Nuova Galleria Morone