Le isterocomiche avventure di Martino L’Uterino

Le isterocomiche avventure di Martino L’Uterino

– Emanuela Biancuzzi, Vittore Baroni, Le Forbici di Manitù

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Book "Le isterocomiche avventure di Martino L'Uterino" + CD
Authors: Emanuela Biancuzzi / Vittore Baroni (Book) + Le Forbici di Manitù (CD)

LE ISTEROCOMICHE AVVENTURE DI MARTINO L’UTERINO :: EMANUELA BIANCUZZI E VITTORE BARONI (AUTORI LIBRO) E LE FORBICI DI MANITU’ (AUTORI CD) :: LIBRO :: RIZOSFERA-NUKFM/WWW EDIZIONI :: CAT. NUKFM023

 

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SYNOPSIS

Expelled for misconduct, spared from radioactivity, unwittingly out of place in a world that doesn’t know what to make of his uniqueness, Martino is a naive and irascible uterine, prone to hemorrhagic outbursts, traveling through time and space stumbling upon uncommon stories and bizarre characters, while stubbornly trying to find his way back home.


THE STORY

Can a woman without a uterus still define herself as a woman? And is a uterus without a woman still a uterus? What happens, socially and from a physical-organic point of view, to a woman without a uterus, and what purpose does an out-of-place uterus serve? These and other medical-metaphysical questions seek answers from visual artist Emanuela Biancuzzi and artist, musician, and music critic Vittore Baroni in a volume that decidedly breaks away from traditional illustrated book formats to weave different meta-narrative registers and multiple levels of reading into a dazzling phantasmagoria of eclectic graphic and verbovisual solutions, positioning itself in a no-man’s land between artist’s book and graphic novel.

The non-linear, seemingly schizophrenic journey alternates between pages of grotesque comedy and fragments of visionary introspection, weaving between shards of dystopian science fiction and visceral declarations of animalist resistance. Important medical-existential issues—such as the traumas following cancer surgery and the social pressures on those who cannot or do not want to have children—are addressed using the tools of imagination and irony, bolstered by specific sage advice dispensed by highly qualified experts wisely called upon to present their significant points of view.

In his adventures outside the maternal body, the young uterus Martino, a sort of self-generated Pinocchio from “waste” organic matter, is an unstable and disturbed character, both naive and irate, embarrassed by his uncontrollable emotional hemorrhages, reluctantly involved in banal or paradoxical situations he doesn’t quite know how to handle.

Martino is in search of an identity and a new balance, questioning his own gender and sexual inclinations, feeling terribly inadequate and occasionally sweetly depressed. Subject to sudden mood swings, he becomes upset and rebellious, spills and stains, but always manages, despite everything, to get by.

In adapting to an unfamiliar habitat, the small anti-hero transforms himself into characters from his childhood comics (from Tintin to Mafalda, from Dylan Dog to Marvel/DC superheroes), becomes a trap singer and hardcore punk band vocalist, encounters well-known contemporary artists, clashes with anatomical formations and pathological phenomena, in a surprising journey inside and outside the human body, amid influences and intertextual references from authors such as Mary Shelley, A.O. Spare, Max Ernst, Albert Camus, Gilles Deleuze, William Burroughs / Brion Gysin, Kurt Cobain, Piermario Ciani.


THE PROJECT

The idea of Martino L’Uterino was conceived in 2016 as a response to the endless oncological vicissitudes of the illustrator and with the need to transform the unknown elements of biological reality into creative, caustic, metaphorical material. Kept in a state of suspended animation for a long time, the project was resumed and developed in 2019 and further refined in the following years, during the coronavirus lockdown period. The final touches were made with the creation of the “sonic backbone” of the project thanks to the musical collective Le Forbici di Manitù (Manitù Rossi, Vittore Baroni, Ignazio Lago), which, starting from some song-texts already included in the book, created exciting melodies and joyful catchy murmurs.


CD Tracklist
1
Ciao Martino
3'04"
2
La mia stupida forma
3'22"
3
Fra Martino
2'44"
4
Se non posso avere te / Unendo l'utero al dilettevole
2'15"
5
The virus dance
4'06"
6
Nascite
2'09"
7
Aria Fretta
3'39"
8
Cut me up, cut me down
5'27"
9
Bye bye body
3'08"
10
Cattiva condotta
4'55"
11
Pop dog corn
2'00"
12
Samba di una sola salma
7'10"
13
Un cupo gilet
2'03"
14
La ballata dell'utero perduto
3'49"
15
Organo City
2'58"
16
Sostituire Iron con Irony
2'23"
17
Basta
1'17"

AUTHORS:

Emanuela Biancuzzi (book images, CD graphics)
Vittore Baroni (book texts, CD music texts)
Le Forbici di Manitù (CD music): Manitu’ Rossi, Vittore Baroni, Ignazio Lago

Emanuela Biancuzzi (Cividale del Friuli, 1970) – Visual artist, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice focusing on relational art, educational projects related to contemporary art, cultural events, graphic design, and editorial illustration. Her artistic production, in a hallucinatory combination of inks, acrylics, collages, and mixed techniques, mainly includes illustrations and images for publishing, illustrated books, album covers, newspapers, periodicals, animated logos, stage designs, and underground comics. From 1994 to the present, she has participated in over a hundred exhibitions. She has exhibited in France, Spain, Greece, Croatia, Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, and in many Italian cities, publishing, among others, for AAA Edizioni, Stripburger, Kite Edizioni, VivaComix, Coconino Press, Penguin Random House, Edizioni Passpartout.

Vittore Baroni (Forte dei Marmi, 1956) – Music journalist (Rockerilla, Rumore, Blow Up) and artist, since the mid-’70s he has been actively involved in mail art, visual poetry, and comics. He has written and curated various essays on contemporary music and aspects of “network cultures” that anticipated the Internet. He has organized exhibitions, events, publications, and collective projects in the field of mail art, audio art, and street art. He was a co-creator of seminal networking projects such as the modular system TRAX (with Piermario Ciani and others), the multiple names Lieutenant Murnau and Luther Blissett, the assemblage magazines Arte Postale! and BAU Contenitore di Cultura Contemporanea, the Decentralized World Congresses Art Detox 2010 and Mail Art Wave 2022. For over thirty years, he has been part of the music group Le Forbici di Manitù, with which he has recorded about fifteen albums for various international labels.

Le Forbici di Manitù – Founded in Reggio Emilia in 1983 by the enigmatic multi-instrumentalist Manitù Rossi and responsible for about twenty albums for esteemed international labels (Staalplaat, Moloko +, Snowdonia, Silentes, etc.), Le Forbici di Manitù feel at home in the most disparate sonic idioms, from post-industrial noise to singer-songwriter, from electronic minimalism to lounge jazz, moving effortlessly between rock, pop, electronic, and cross-genre contaminations. In the lineup, completed by Gabriella Marconi (flute, glockenspiel, etc.) and Vittore Baroni (lyrics), various protagonists of the Italian alternative and experimental scene have served over the years, such as Enrico Marani (T.A.C./Spectral Unit), Daniele Carretti (Offlaga Disco Pax), Fabrizio Tavernelli (A.F.A.), Ignazio Lago (Gi-Napajo). Among the group’s most recent projects, the colored vinyl single “Margherite” (Sussidiaria), which celebrated the group’s fortieth anniversary in 2023, the double album “Incredibile?!” (Sussidiaria, 2022) featuring homages and Italian versions from the repertoire of the Incredible String Band, Tinnitus Tales (Sussidiaria, 2016), a triple album on the theme of tinnitus as a professional disease of rock operators, with the collaboration of about fifty musicians and visual artists. Set to be released in 2024, the book+CD “Le isterocomiche avventure di Martino l’Uterino” (WWW Edizioni / Rizosfera), created in collaboration with the artist and illustrator Emanuela Biancuzzi. The ever-mutating lineup of Le Forbici di Manitù, for the production of Martino’s ‘sonic backbone,’ consists of: Manitu’ Rossi (Kaossilator 2S, Eventide H9, vocals), Vittore Baroni (lyrics), Ignazio Lago (guitar, bass, percussion, vocals).


BONUS

Included with the volume:

  • A CD album by Le Forbici di Manitù featuring 17 lively tracks for almost an hour of extravagant and unheard electronic songs.
  • A sheet of transparent stickers depicting fantasy characters related to the evolution of the narrative and the multiple virtual possibilities inherent in figurative hacking.

Available exclusively for sale during book presentations:

  • A 50×70 cm color poster synoptic map for fragments of Martino L’Uterino’s adventures as a framable contribution for homes of exquisite taste.

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