GIUDA (acronym of Geographical Institute of Unconventional Drawing Arts) is a review consisting of of nostalgia, cartography and drawing images at the same time.
Map is not the territory and the drawing is not the representation. How do drawing and geographical representation interact? GIUDA looks into the forsaking of images, the ambiguous relationship between sign and perception.
The review visually recalls the production of those early ‘900 European avant-garde review, everything is drawn, from the summary to the fake advertising. Every story is presented by the map of the place in which it is set. Every land is a comic still to be told. The focus is on the project of figuration of the Montparnasse cemetery. The map of one of the historical Parisian cenotaph is rebuilt through the portraits of his most famous guests, drawn and rendered by the authors collaborating to this risky enterprise. A path along the memory, a phantasmatical reinterpretation. A déjàvu that gives sense and sign to an end-privileging place, today visited by curious tourists in mood for sepulchral emotions.
For this dangerous romantic revival: Gianluca Costantini orchestra Armin Barducci, the spanish collective El Cubri, Ciro Fanelli, Angelo Mennillo, Rocco Lombardi, Robert Rebotti -jacklamotta, Alice Socal, Marco Lobietti and Elettra Stamboulis.
An exhibition presenting a selection of works composing the first number of the review will set up at place “Capo di Lucca".