Georges Didi-Huberman, Electa, Milano 2009 (pp. 111, € 19,00 / italiano)
In his extensive archaeological survey of the modern and contemporary image, Georges Didi-Huberman was bound to encounter the work of Claudio Parmiggiani. The Emilian artist epitomises a fiendish obsession with French philosophy of our time, from Derrida to Lyotard. Didi-Huberman’s essay, first published by Allemandi in 2002 and now republished by Electa in an elegant new edition, appears in felicitous conjunction with the inauguration of a new scultura d’ombra (“shadow sculpture”) created by Parmiggiani on the apse walls of the Church of San Giorgio in Poggiale (Bologna, Italy).