Flavio Pacino

Non ho mai lasciato fiori tra le pagine di un libro prima di conoscerti

2023 At Marsaladue, Bologna (Italy)

Busta trasparente con carta crema, segni a pennarello viola in forma di grovigli, petali secchi e piccoli frammenti rossi, su fondo nero.
Non ho mai lasciato fiori tra le pagine di un libro prima di conoscerti, 2023. Mixed media and materials, variable dimensions. Installation view from Marsaladue, Bologna (IT).
View of the exhibition room: a light wooden table with open binders, a wooden box on the floor and a small panel on the white wall next to a window.
Light wooden structure with two open binders on top and a box of colourful objects at the base, seen from above at an angle.
Detail of a ring binder with clear sleeves full of sheets and drawings, resting on wooden bars.
Top view of the wooden structure: a drawer full of dried plants, a white binder on the left and a tray of paints at the base.
Wooden drawer filled with dried herbs, flowers and orange fruits, with a tray of paints in the background.
Top view of the structure with two open binders, one holding a black sheet, and a tray under the top.
Wooden tray with painted stones, shells, green glass and small colourful objects.
Wooden structure with open binders extending on both sides, seen from above at an angle.
Detail of a wooden corner joint with a small yellow leaf resting on the edge.
View of the white wall with a small panel and, on the left, the wooden table with a box on the floor.
Binders with clear sleeves on the wooden structure; underneath, the bars hold more objects.
Detail of the tray with painted stones, small objects and glass fragments, lit by sunlight.
Wooden box on the floor with green leaves in front of a white wall.
Close-up of the box full of green leaves with a blue stone.
Wooden post with a green leaf threaded on a thin pale-blue stick.
Edge of a shelf with a dried red flower hanging from a thin pale-blue stick.
Open binder with a clear sleeve: a sheet with blue and green marks and a small illustrated card.
Chipboard panel on the white wall with small clear sleeves and a card with a plant.
Chipboard panel on the white wall with a sleeve holding sheets with blue patterns.
Open binder with a clear sleeve edged with blue patterns and pen drawings.
Binder with clear sleeves: sheets with pen drawings, tapes and small pink marks.
Wooden tray full of dried plants, flowers and orange fruits, seen from above.
Chipboard panel on the wall with a clear holder and small red objects at its centre.
Chipboard panel with a clear holder containing pale sheets and a thin thread.
Chipboard panel with a clear holder and a sheet dense with handwriting.
Non ho mai lasciato fiori tra le pagine di un libro prima di conoscerti, 2023 – mixed media and materials, variable dimensions.
Installation view from Marsaladue, Bologna (Italy).

Drawings, writings, plant elements, objects and fragments are gathered within a structure that takes the form of an incomplete archive. The attempt to preserve and organise a relationship instead reveals its gaps: each trace points towards something that can no longer be fully reconstructed, leaving communication suspended between translation, memory and error.

Link: Kuba Paris · Marsaladue

Clear sleeve with cream paper, violet marker scribbles, dried petals and small red fragments, on a black background.
Scan of a collage in a clear sleeve: a drawing of blue dots joined by thin lines, like a constellation, with dried leaves and a blue paper star on a black background.
Clear sleeve with cream paper, dried grass strands, violet pen writing, radiating lines and a strip of grey tape, on a black background.
Clear sleeve with cream paper covered in lines of violet cursive handwriting, with tapes and red fragments along the top edge.
Another scan of the collage with violet scribbles on cream paper, dried petals and red fragments in a clear sleeve on a black background.
Upside-down scan of the collage with blue dotted drawing, dried leaves and paper star, in a clear sleeve on a black background.
Vertical clear sleeve with overlapping sheets, a diagonal dried grass stem, a pressed flower and a note with handwritten text.
Vertical clear sleeve with a white sheet with a torn edge, small dried flowers and a blue dot, on a black background.
Translucent sleeve with a white card on tissue paper: pencil drawing of figures and vertical lines, adhesive tape and a green sprig.
Translucent sleeve with tissue paper, a white slip with handwritten notes, a cream cut-out and green sprigs.
Tall clear sleeve with a pale sheet, a thin branch with green leaves and a strip of tape, on a black background.
Tall clear sleeve with a white sheet covered in pencil drawings of grids and solids, and words in violet pen at the top.
Tall clear sleeve with a pencil drawing of a spindly figure on cream paper, a white strip and a tape with dried herbs.
Tall clear sleeve with fragments of dried leaves and petals on cream paper and a white strip with small pencil drawings.
Square scan of a translucent sleeve with tissue paper, a white slip with handwritten notes, a cream cut-out and green sprigs.
Square scan of a translucent sleeve with a white card: pencil drawing of figures and vertical lines, adhesive tape and a green sprig.
Punched clear sleeve with layers of paper: a violet cut-out with the number #001, a red sticker, a large grey spiral mark and dried herbs.
Punched clear sleeve with ruled paper and small violet marks, gold and aqua-green paint stains and an illustrated cut-out of an elderly character with a fishbowl.
Another scan of the punched sleeve with the violet #001 cut-out, red sticker, grey spiral mark and dried herbs, on a black background.
Another scan of the punched sleeve with ruled paper, violet marks, gold and aqua-green stains and the illustrated cut-out with a fishbowl.
Clear sleeve with typed and handwritten sheets, coloured tapes at the top and a green leaf on the right edge.
Clear sleeve with handwritten sheets, a sheet with a printed green leaf and strips of decorated paper below.
Clear sleeve with notebook sheets covered in small pen drawings and a cream slip of paper.
Clear sleeve with a portrait printed in black ink, a tangled thread and grey marks on paper.
Clear sleeve with a sheet of handwritten notes and pen sketches.
Clear sleeve with a pencil drawing of a reclining figure and a curved yellow cord.
Clear sleeve with pen sketches of boxes and cages and a small red element.
Vertical clear sleeve with overlapping papers, small drawings and fragments of dried plants.
Clear sleeve with handwritten letters on cream paper and a blue sheet.
Vertical clear sleeve with a pen drawing of a figure and red and white paper fragments.
Vertical clear sleeve with a sheet with lines and figures drawn in blue pen.
Clear sleeve with a cream sheet covered in handwriting, aqua-green marks and a small illustrated card.
Clear sleeve with handwriting on cream paper, a fern sprig and violet marks.
Clear sleeve with a sheet of handwriting on cream paper and wavy blue lines along the edge.
Small clear sleeve on a black background with a dried purple flower on a square sheet.
Small clear sleeve with a square slip covered in pinkish writing.
Narrow clear sleeve with a slip and two pink discs with a drawn face.
Narrow clear sleeve with a slip, a red thread and a pink disc.
White sheet with a dried flower with orange petals on a long red stem.
Clear sleeve with a slip of notes and a black pen drawing.
Clear sleeve with handwritten sheets and fragments of brown and green paper.
Clear sleeve with pencil drawings of spindly figures, a cream card and adhesive tape.
Clear sleeve with a large pencil drawing of a geometric solid and lines of notes.
Vertical clear sleeve with a handwritten page on ruled paper.
Clear sleeve with a handwritten page and dried red and green petals.
Clear sleeve with a handwritten page and a strip of paper with orange marks.
Vertical clear sleeve with a handwritten page and a dark curved branch.
Clear sleeve with lines of handwriting on pale paper.
Vertical clear sleeve with overlapping cream papers and small dried flowers.
Clear sleeve with a stack of handwritten letters on white paper.
Vertical clear sleeve with a sheet with a pencil drawing of a plant and a dried flower.
Clear sleeve with a dark photocopy, lines of text and strips of tape.
Vertical clear sleeve with a branching pen drawing and plant fragments.
Vertical clear sleeve with a punched sheet of handwriting, on a black background.
Vertical clear sleeve with drawings of plants and a strand of green fern.
Vertical clear sleeve with dried black flowers and pen drawings of flowers.
Clear sleeve with a sheet covered in grey dots, a fern and dried leaves.
Clear sleeve with a border of blue patterns, handwritten notes and dried leaves.
Clear sleeve with pencil drawings of feathers and a small white doily.
Clear sleeve with tissue paper, a green leaf, a blue stamp and paper strips.
Clear sleeve with a cream card and a drawing in red, turquoise and black.
Vertical clear sleeve with an almost empty cream card with faint pencil marks.
Vertical clear sleeve with a cream card and a small drawing in pencil and blue pen.
Vertical clear sleeve with an almost empty cream card.
Vertical clear sleeve with a cream card and a drawing of figures in pencil and blue pen.
Vertical clear sleeve with an almost empty cream card.
Non ho mai lasciato fiori tra le pagine di un libro prima di conoscerti, 2023 – mixed media and materials, variable dimensions.

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