A new publishing reality in the art world: Politi Seganfreddo edizioni

There is news in the world ofart publishing: in fact, the publishing house Politi Seganfreddo edizioni was born, and on February 24 its first titles were released in bookstores. The publishing house, founded by Cristiano Seganfreddo and Gea Politi, picks up the legacy of the historic Giancarlo Politi Editore, the publishing venture of the founder of Flash Art, the main reference magazine for contemporary art, which is now therefore published by the new brand. Editorial director will be the young philosopher Leonardo Caffo.

“There are more than 5,000 publishing houses in Italy,” Seganfreddo and Politi recall. “A density that makes our country one of the most active in the world, since the time of Aldo Manuzio who invented the contemporary book in the 1500s. Do we need another publishing label then? Probably not, indeed no. Politi Seganfreddo edizioni was born aware of the limitations and bottlenecks of the Italian publishing system out of a nightly and risky dialogue between the publishers, Gea Politi and Cristiano Seganfreddo, and the philosopher Leonardo Caffo, who is its editorial director. A vision: to act like a diviner, the latter a symbol of the publishing house. To dig in order to get lost, to err in order to find, to follow subterranean and minimal threads or traces.”

Politi Seganfreddo edizioni aims to carve out a significant role for itself in contemporaneity by rethinking its categories in a fluid way: space, therefore, for initiatives in which contemporary art merges with science, fashion with philosophy, the essay with experimental poetry, the novel, and music theory. Contemporaneity, according to the founders of the new publishing reality, demands going beyond the ordinary cultural taxonomy, and that is why Politi Seganfreddo editions intends to think differently about the idea of genre, length, editorial parameter by acting on several directions.

The first group of six titles is meant to be a planning taste, an appetizer of the 2023 programming that will see more than fifteen titles arrive in bookstores. From Amarcord Vol.1, the unmissable tales of the “true” history of contemporary art as experienced by Giancarlo Politi, with a foreword by Francesco Bonami, to Mercury Versus, an American generational novel-icon by Emily Segal, with a foreword by Gea Politi, to Ayahuasca and Care of the World by Piero Cipriano, on a journey of the mind to discover new worlds. “Clothes do not make the monk is the monk,” recalls Alberto F. Ambrosio with The Gospel of Vanities. Fashion and Spirit, while Cristiano Seganfreddo reasons about the minor and trivial, seemingly harmless ugly in The Banality of Ugly - Beauty is Political to close with An Existential Rebellion - Appointments of Art with Philosophy curated by Leonardo Caffo that re-proposes great philosophers of the 20th century on the comparison between the two disciplines: Baudrillard, Dagognet, Gadamer, Kristeva, Jameson, Lyotard, Marin, Perniola, Sloterdijk, Sollers, Virilio and West.

Special care has been given to the book object, with art direction by Agenzia del Contemporaneo. A small pocket format, it is proposed as a classic that reveals contemporary details. Special papers, unusual processing, original fonts, rigorous but never obvious layout. A book that is twenty years old and twenty years ahead. Politi Seganfreddo editions collaborates with Messaggerie Group for the distribution of its books and the PDE promotional network for promotion.

To learn more about the publishing house and its titles, you can visit the Politi Seganfreddo edizioni website.

A new publishing reality in the art world: Politi Seganfreddo edizioni

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