Res Publica #1

“The space we have left in the world”

by Marco Bucchieri
Preface by Jacek Ludwig Scarso
City Space Architecture Press, Bologna 2025

Ever since the appearance in 1960 of Crowds and Power, a fundamental essay by Elias Canetti, the great themes concerning the essence of the crowd, from an existential, philosophical and psychological point of view, have converged in areas of study that, in our modernity, and in the perspective of a disturbing hyper–technological future, lead to the need for a continuous observation of the mechanisms that make urban reality now out of place and control and the resulting consequences in terms of social and existential isolation.
The challenge of this short essay by Marco Bucchieri is to attempt, through a technique of investigation centered on the human factor and widely supported by literary and artistic references and examples, a reading in fragments (light but not superficial) of how much the extent of the impact with the study of the Crowds, Solitudes and Places, generates spheres of further reflection, that touch and condition the life experience of the Citizen of the World today.

Marco Bucchieri (Rome, 1952) is a writer, lecturer and multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes mixed media, photography, installation, symbolism and allegory. Active since the 1970s, his artistic work focuses on visual poetry and literary narrative between image and writing, placing himself at the intersection of time, place and memory through the creation of exhibitions, installations, conceptual images and books.
His photographic works are in many public and private collections in Italy, Denmark, UK, USA and Turkey, in the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts of Milano, in the Modern Art Gallery of Cento and in the MUSINF in Senigallia, and in the permanent collection of Museo Spazio Pubblico.
Marco is a Senior Advisor for City Space Architecture and a Resident Artist at Museo Spazio Pubblico in Bologna.

February 2025, English
15×21 cm, 92 pages, 26 color ill.
hardcover € 38,00
ISBN 9791298546301

Publisher: City Space Architecture Press
Series: Res Publica / Urban Narrative and Visual Storytelling
Director: Luisa Bravo
Design: lldesign.it
Status: Available at Museo Spazio Pubblico’s Art Shop in Bologna, Italy

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