Why Are People Unable to Relax?
Why Are People Unable to Relax?
Giulia Neri
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Artist Giulia Neri
Title What Are People Unable to Relax?
Technique Fine art print
Paper German Etching 310 g
Printed in Milan by Fratelli Bonvini 1909
Print run 50 copies, signed and numbered by hand by the artist, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Format 80 x 60 cm
Unframed
About the artist
Giulia Neri spent years working as a psychologist before she understood that she was already doing the same work - only with a different tool. She lives in a small village in the Italian Dolomites and makes illustrations that sit at the exact boundary where visual art and interior life meet: not explaining emotion, but drawing close enough that something shifts.
Her work has appeared in Time Magazine, The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, and La Repubblica. Since 2022 some of it has hung in the Galleria Farnesina at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has not left the village.
The writer Federico Pace described the experience of looking at her illustrations as "setting out on a journey across the vast continent of human bonds." He was not wrong.
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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.
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Giulia Neri is an Italian illustrator and former psychologist working from a small village in the Dolomites, whose work has hung in the Galleria Farnesina at Italy's Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2022.
A red armchair - mid-century, deep-seated, the kind built for a long afternoon. Standing on it: a girl in a printed dress, arms out, one foot lifted, dark hair flying.
The chair is perfectly good for sitting in.
Why are people unable to relax? She is not the answer to this question. She is the question.
First shown at L'importanza dei piccoli gesti (Bonvini 1909, Sept 13–Oct 28 2023). Fine art print on 310g German Etching paper. 80 × 60 cm. Edition of fifty, signed and numbered by hand, with a certificate of authenticity.
Exclusive to Australia.
