On February 22nd, we presented "The Divine Tourist" by Daniele Villa Zorn, along with the exhibition showcasing the artist's original collages.

Daniele Villa Zorn has always created collages using a simple, minimalist technique that can be reminiscent of the essential composition of haikus: he combines only two photographic fragments, two images, one of which is generally marked by a tear. Over the years, much of his work has leaned towards the use of nature images, extracted from travel books and tourist guides primarily produced between the 1950s and early 1970s, where the Olympic tranquility of natural elements is subverted by the fragmentation and recomposition inherent in collage.

In 2023, he published "The Divine Tourist" with Leporello Books, a book in which the right balance between the evocative power of the images and their pure aesthetic value is embodied by the figure of a special tourist who, with the gift of ubiquity, enviable detachment, and infinite possibilities of movement, roams like a privileged alien in this fictitious universe.