A look back at Zzz publishing house's residency at Aperto
Invited by the Pernod Ricard Foundation to take up a residency at Aperto, graphic designers Thomas Bizzarri and Alain Rodriguez have launched Zzz, a publishing house conceived as a free and experimental space for creation around the book object.
Zzz is a publishing house set up by Thomas Bizzarri and Alain Rodriguez (Bizzarri-Rodriguez). It claims no editorial policy, other than to explore the potential narratives offered by the book as an object, and to thwart the typologies and archetypes that traditionally govern its form and structure.
His first book, Un'fold, by artist David Douard, will be published in autumn 2024. It will be an immersion in the circulation of language, words and images within his work. Like a fanzine that is never finished - always ongoing - these flows intermingle, bringing together works, collages, research, sources and references, notes, personal archives and other motifs in gestation. The book shows and renews, fixes as much as it modifies David Douard's work, translating the energies that run through and articulate his practice. The text by author Nina Kennel circulates within the object, insinuating itself into its very materiality.
