Gio Castranova Still Missing

Label / Giordano Castranova (Self-Published)
Category / Design, Archive, Art Brut, Outsider Art
Code / 978-1645709022

STILL MISSING is a beautifully designed art book exploring the folk art of lost & found pet posters. Featuring nearly 200 pages of high quality full-color images and illustrations. A curatorial voyage through the world of lost and found pet posters that combines graphic and visual arts, illustration, and photography in a poetic and cohesive collage of raw emotion. Art connoisseurs and casual observers of all backgrounds, interests, and ages will find their own deep resonance within its pages. From 2010 to 2013, I drove around Los Angeles County collecting lost and found animal posters. Being a huge animal lover myself, I set a rule for my project… I had to see at least three identical posters in a one-block area in order to take one (to not defeat the owners quest of finding their animal). For three years, I drove tirelessly all over L.A. County, from South Central to Palmdale and from Venice to East L.A.in order to incorporate the many cultures of Los Angeles into the posters themselves. Back in 2010, I realized that I possessed a true form of Folk Art -- hand-drawn, hand-painted posters made by ordinary people. They were meditations on the mundane. At this time I foresaw the rise of these posters becoming fully digitized templates and felt that the form of Folk Art displayed in these posters had every right to be preserved and viewed for years to come . . .

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