Art beyond the wall: Giannini’s aerial images become rugs

CICOGNARA, MANTUA, Italy – The aerial images of Italian photographer Giacomo Giannini are now a series of limited-edition rugs. The project premiered at the photography exhibition The Phairin Turin and it stems from the synergy between Giannini, Stefano Seletti and Paola Sosio.

Giannini is an eclectic and multidisciplinary figure whose practice crosses photography, film and visual communication, always maintaining an original gaze and a strong experimental tension.

From the synergy between Stefano Seletti, the Seletti brand’s art director, Giannini’s gaze and the gallerist Paola Sosio, three aerial images – part of the complex research conducted by the photographer between 1985 and 1992 across the Italian territory – have been created into a limited series of rugs, 30 numbered pieces for each subject.

Presented as a preview at The Phair – a photography fair held in Torino, Italy, from May 22-24 – the collection consolidates Seletti’s natural propensity to cross boundaries between languages, transforming artists’ visions into living design objects.

The three shots, emblematic of Giannini’s powerful expressive language, offer a new interpretation of the landscape from a zenithal point of view.

The works selected for the rug collection – each measuring 280×200 cm – play with chromatic saturation and urban geometry.

Holiday at the seaside #18 is a tribute to the aesthetics of the Italian coastlines.

Sfasciacarrozze (Scrapyard) elevates mechanical chaos into a complex and hypnotic chromatic texture.

Basket focuses on the melancholic charm of an empty playground marked by time, where the human absence emphasizes the graphic strength of the lines and worn materials.