Differente

Differente follows the exhibition of the same name, which was held in 2006 at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. The book features the work of  Antonia Ciampi, an artist whose search has always demonstrated a deep sympathy for Spanish culture, both in the fascination for classical literature and in the sensible attention to the social environment. At the basis of Differente there is the will to create new meanings through the combination of images, words and clues that in everyday life refer to different concepts and in Antonia Ciampi’s work are put

together in order to find new significances. The curator Silvia Evangelisti writes: “A first key to reading Antonia

Ciampi’s artistic action is the strict and inseparable relationship between art and play. These two factors - which represented a powerful texture also for Dadaism and Surrealism - have something in common: the will to be divergent from conventions and habits; the will to create original communication and relations, the ability to set up ‘fictitious contracts’ between thought and things.” The book is divided into seven thematic sections, each characterized by the contribution – which, in some cases, is strictly part of the work of art – of famous personalitiesn (such as actor Alessandro Bergonzoni and singer Lucio Dalla) that have interacted with Antonia during her art experimentation.