{"product_id":"patagonia","title":"Patagonia","description":"\u003cp\u003e“It was a kind of music. Six months later I found an album of oriental paper, and I started to draw a kind of landscape score. I tried to find this music of forms, I looked for my Patagonia from the Patagonia I had crossed”.\u003cbr\u003e– Lorenzo Mattotti\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not the first time that Mattotti has felt the need to make an illustrated travelogue, he had already done so in 2014, collecting a series of drawings documenting his discovery of Vietnam in a precious travel book, later published by Louis Vuitton. On\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePatagonia\u003c\/em\u003e, however, the artist does not want to make a full-fledged reportage, as he had done for the eastern country; what interests him about this place is only one aspect: its boundless and virgin nature, not its inhabitants and their stories that had so fascinated storytellers such as Bruce Chatwin and Louis Sepulveda. For Mattotti, Patagonia is first and foremost a place of the mind and that is why he strips it of colour to represent it, synthesising its forms, making it almost abstract to succeed in giving us back a sensation before an image, the sensation that every man feels when he finds himself in an extreme land, in a land at the end of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by Melania Gazzotti, the book presents all the 24 black and white plates contained in the Nepalese paper notebook where Mattotti copied his travel notes, together with a selection of colour drawings made by the artist in a classic Moleskine® notebook while he was in Patagonia. Both notebooks are unpublished and were made between 2003 and 2004.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe world’s best-known Italian illustrator, a never-before-seen exhibition and a book to collect:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePatagonia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Lorenzo Mattotti promises to be a not-to-be-missed event for all lovers of contemporary illustration and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lazy Dog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59327995445593,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/1123\/0297\/files\/LazyDogPatagonia-1.jpg?v=1789733514","url":"https:\/\/redy.shop\/products\/patagonia","provider":"Redy.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}