Truth is Life
Truth is Life
Cabaret Typographie
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Artist Cabaret Typographie
Title Truth is Life
Year 2025
Technique 3-color letterpress printing from laser-cut MDF matrices
Format 50 x 70 cm
Paper Materica Gesso gr. 250
Print run 5 signed and numbered copies
Unframed
About the workshop
A few steps off Corso Lodi in Milan, a stationery and print shop has been open since 1909. Costante and Luigia Bonvini founded it as the neighbourhood's place for paper and ink. More than a century later, the original presses still run.
In 2014, a group of friends rescued the shop from disappearing, restoring it with architects who specialise in cultural heritage. The machines - a 19th-century platen press, an Imperial Cylinder Press, a Heidelberg Stella - were returned to working order.
Bonvini 1909 is now part print shop, part gallery, part cultural institution. Every piece carries the particular character that only a hand-fed press can produce - the slight variation, the impression in the paper, the evidence of a human hand.
$15 flat shipping, Australia-wide — free over $300.
Cabaret Typographie is a letterpress collective founded in Milan and Paris in 2010 by Laura Dal Maso, Mauro De Toffol and Tommaso Pucci, printing everything by hand from their Milan residency at Atelier Bonvini 1909 since 2022.
In 1889, Frank Lloyd Wright built his family home in Oak Park, Illinois - the house where he would develop the Prairie Style and reshape what architecture could mean. Above it he inscribed a motto: Truth is Life.
Cabaret Typographie has taken those three words and turned them into a letterpress poster - a graphic homage to Wright's conviction that a building and the life inside it are not separate things. Printed on 250gsm Materica Gesso at 50 × 70 cm, it is one of five artist's proofs, signed and numbered, from their atelier inside Bonvini 1909 on Via Tagliamento, Milan.
Five copies. No more.
Exclusive to Australia.
