The Design Issue

ARCHIVIO N°5 inaugurates the second cycle of the magazine, this time directed by Valerio Millefoglie, and takes us back to 1991 when a very crowded Vlora ship coming from Durazzo docks at the port of Bari, bringing 20,000 refugees. It also touches on an interview with photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, and other archive stories of the time that can always speak to us about the present.

How to tell the story and the energy of the 1980s? We have chosen a long correspondence with Giorgio Armani; an interview with historian Carlo Ginzburg; writer Giorgio Vasta’s fiction from the world of records; and with Gao Xingjian, the first author of Chinese origin to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, we ideally returned to the places and the period of his escape along the Yangtze River.

The world of 1973 revolves and hovers around a city that is a bottomless pit of history—Naples and the cholera epidemic of 1973; Naples and the threat of bradyseism in 1970; Naples and its burning bowels in 1979; Naples and a woman in 1974 who set herself on fire in bed in a criminal lunatic asylum; Naples and the great photographer Mimmo Jodice. This issue of ARCHIVIO focuses on the 1970s, between desire for change and deep tensions, utopian impulses and oblique gazes.

Guido Crepax and Sabrina Ragucci, Folco Quilici, Dacia Maraini and Pino Tovaglia, amongst others, walk us through this issue of ARCHIVIO on our journey backwards through the XX century. A focus on the 1960s, between hope for a new world and lightheartedness promises, this is the last chapter of the second series of ARCHIVIO directed by Valerio Millefoglie.

A limited edition of 150 copies bringing together the last four issues of ARCHIVIO. A celebration of the second editorial series of the magazine published by Promemoria Group, directed by Valerio Millefoglie with the editorial consultancy of Daniela Hamaui.