Index.

• Interrogative
  • The independent magazines constantly research, without easy compromizes, always interrogating themselves and the world around them.
• Inclusive
  • The independent magazines are often the inclusive set for ideas with a strong creative drive, the collection of underground innovations, always filtered by an attentive eye.
• Insane
  • The independents are characterized by a bit of eccentricity, of oddness, of insanity. Extremized by the frantic and almost compulsive search of the absurd, the different, the new.
• Ingenious
  • The independent magazines always try to find solutions to go beyond the ordinary, upsetting what is already known. The premises for innovation are laid.
• Incommode
  • The independent magazines are not scared of talking. They are not warm, they choose, they risk. They dig in the society where everything is dirtier, but also more real.
• Intimate
  • In the independent magazines the private dimension merges with the public one. The search for worlds which are hidden from the eye of the society merges with the subjective momentum of the author.

In program.

• Exhibition
• Workshop
• Conference

Since the start of their history, magazines have always had the role of catalysts of ideas. They have been a meeting point for thoughts about the contemporary society, and have promoted reflections by the public itself upon the events happening in it. As an independent medium, they always had the convenience of being purer and more multi-faceted than other media. They communicate with readers in an unconventional way, with no filters or restrictions at all. Magazines increasingly need to differentiate themselves from the media providing news in real time, first of all from the internet medium. That is why they offer a level of elaboration of reality ever deeper and more timely than the one the other media can provide. Magazines can be represented as a bracket, a second level of deepening in the speech.

What matters is not the news, but rather the way it is displayed, under which point of view it is presented, through which kind of mirror, let it be satin, matt or ancient. It happens sometimes that the mirrors through which society is described are deforming as the ones you can find in circuses, showing a bittersweet satire of contemporaneity. Other times, instead, they are ponds where it's nice to recognize ourselves, feeling a bit narcissus and dreamy. Or they can be looking-glasses from fairytales, which seem to have all the answers, but then leave us with unanswered questions under our breath.
Which are impossible to forget.
Magazines question.
They start reflections.

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In collaboration.

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