OLIM : BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK
WITH THE AUTHOR | FEIRA DO LIVRO 2020
PT / ENG
About the book OLIM:
“What has been collected in these “Fichas”1 are “Flashes”2, snapshots that fix objects, geographies, states of mind, that can last, available to overcome situations of impasse, insecurities and even visual blurring. These Fichas are a comfort, a refuge in the hard times of the profession, in the loneliness of design, when we really have to decide.”
Eduardo Souto de Moura
1. L. Wittgenstein – Fichas (Zettel), Edições 70.
2. Flash, Herberto Helder, Published by the author.
“Made up of small events that occur in a succession without chronology or hierarchy, OLIM is directly descended from the lineage of the atlas, the book as a resonance box, which produces circulation between worlds, which is not self-contained, which is not set in any historic time.“
“Based on a rationale of migration of images and bodies, OLIM is a book that seeks beauty, in the deepest (as a mystery) and most humble (as a gift) sense of the term.”
Nuno Faria
“Equally significant is the effort to condense key ideas/emotions into many of the OLIM aphorisms which, combined with images, create a very specific poetics; many of them appear as if they were a visual haiku where the power and meaning owe a great deal to the relationship of the “form” - that the image allows to be re-imagined - with the “word” - and what together they can represent.”
“Thanks to the significant collaboration between the author, publisher and designer the specific potential of the physical book was explored in order to offer an innovative reading and a deeper understanding of both the author as a person and of his work.”
Né Santelmo
“OLIM by Camilo Rebelo challenges readers to search for a meaning in the fragments of journeys and projects that shows us, through images combined with sundry thoughts, something that brings it closer to Umberto Eco’s concept of opera aperta1 because it allows a range of interpretations.”
“The book thus links the image, especially photography, with the text to create a visual discourse where there is room for coherence, and for paradox and play, too, the oxymoron.”
1. Umberto Eco, Obra Aberta: forma e indeterminação nas poéticas contemporânea. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2005.
Pedro Leão Neto
OLIM by Camilo Rebelo
SCOPIO EDITIONS AUTHOR’S BOOK COLLECTION
Porto, 2020
ISBN 978-989-330102
218 pages
OLIM will be launched on the 5th of September 2020, 17h00, at the Salão Independente during Feira do Livro do Porto 2020, Porto. This session will feature the author of the book Camilo Rebelo, as well as Pedro Leão Neto, Nuno Faria and Rui Chafes. Olim is now available for purchase at scopio’s bookstore for 34€.
To download a sample of the book, click HERE
SCOPIO EDITIONS AUTHOR’S BOOK COLLECTION is the publishing medium for photographic projects specially de- signed to be developed as an artist’s book and linked to Artistic and Documentary Photography on Architecture, City and Territory and the publishing medium for various artistic projects, especially creative, research and plastic expression works in the eld of contemporary art, and related to the topics of Architecture, City and Territory.
Our goal is to promote both notable works and new authors, showing the potential of the authoŕs book as a unique medium for communicating multiple perspectives and combining diverse art expressions, in order to convey, in a poetic and documental way, the multiple issues related to architecture and the spaces where people live and work.
We want to publish photo projects combining documentary and artistic universe in such a way that they may create synergies and allow for an innovative reading and understanding of territory and of how people appropriate the spaces where they live and work in our contemporary world.