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Fiori blu by Tommaso Pandolfi comes to New York for the first time - the first book published by rhizome books, the imprint of Rhizome, a Rome-based record shop and bookshop. Copies will be available at Bungee Space from that day on. For anyone interested, Rhizome will be there for a chat about the book. In addition, boring tables will do a live set starting at 3 PM on Oct 25, 2026. |
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Fiori blu (rhizome books n.1) collects a series of blue flowers drawn by Tommaso Pandolfi. The flowers belong to no recognisable species and come from no botanical observation: they are primary forms, repeated hundreds of times, sometimes clearly outlined, sometimes blurred to the edge of illegibility. |
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The repetition is the subject. Rather than refining a single image or building a taxonomy of its variants, Pandolfi stays inside the same image and returns to it until the repetition itself produces the deviation — the hundredth flower does not correct the first, and the thousandth resolves nothing. Printed images alternate with blank pages, which work as pauses in the sequence, and the book includes a text by Matteo Binci alongside passages by Georgia O'Keeffe and Novalis. |
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Tommaso Pandolfi (b. 1995) is a Venice-based composer and visual artist. He holds a BA in New Technologies of Art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino and an MA in Visual Arts from the Iuav University of Venice. His most recent releases include the albums “Wounds of Melody” (Kohlhaas, 2025) and “The Infinite Hour” (-OUS, 2023). His new album “Tremula Luce” was released on Window Seat in May 2026. His visual work has been exhibited at Esposizione Sud Est (Conversano), Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice), A plus A Gallery (Venice), SanSecondo (Milan), Aarduork (Venice), I Fumi della Fornace (Valle Cascia), Mostra internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro (Pesaro), SEEYOUSOUND International Music Film Festival (Turin). boring tables is the ambient and experimental solo project of Rome-based sound artist Luca Quartarone. His releases include mathematical model 0010 and new again. Beyond his musical practice, Luca is the founder of Rhizome, a record shop and bookshop as well as window seat, an independent record label, and rhizome books, a publishing house. |
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All images courtesy of the artists |
