Title: Davide Balliano – Building Body
Author/Editor: Chrissie Iles / Luigi Fassi
Publisher: CURA.BOOKS
Design Firm: WHYWHATIF
Creative Director:
Art Director:
Book Designer: Jeff Albert
Jacket Designer: Jeff Albert
Illustrator:
Photographer: Dario Lasagni, Alessandro Simonetti
Picture Editor:
Production Director: Andrea Baccin
Production Coordinator: Costanza Paissan
Production Artist: Davide Balliano
Other Credits: All artworks by Davide Balliano; Translations by Flavio Erra, Ginevra Quadrio Curzio, Stephen Piccolo

Project Description:
Davide Balliano – Building Body was designed for the occasion of Davide Balliano’s solo exhibition at MARCA Museum in Catanzaro, Italy. The book showcases his body of work to date. Graphic, geometric, meditative — and by all accounts stunning — Davide Balliano’s work is collected in this art book, along with a conversation between Balliano and Whitney Museum’s curator Chrissie Iles, and a critical essay by Luigi Fassi, artistic director of the MAN – Contemporary Art Museum in Nuoro, Italy. Published by the excellent CURA.BOOKS, printed in Italy, and clocking in at over 200 pages, the book uses a mixture of coated and uncoated papers to bring a tactility that supports Balliano’s work itself.

Juror Comments:
Very interesting opening sequence. The choice of red type for bilingual texts enhances the contrast which is also an inherent part of the art works and form a nice compliment to the overall appearance of the book. — Henk van Assen