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Luca Saini
My Beautiful Disco - Original Soundtrack

Album IT 2012 on MDB label
Dance (Hip-House)

Gatefold sleeve + insert, red vinyl, plus, on request, additional 12" photographic print limited to 92 numbered and signed copies, in plastic outer protective cover. - on request, the people photographed for the project could purchase a copy with their own portrait as additional cover. From 2006 until 2012, the photographer and artist from Turin Luca Saini has realized 777 portraits, each one depicting a person with his or her favourite record. A vinyl record of course: microgroove 78’s, 45’s or 33 rpm; “a round disk with a spiral groove for the reproduction of sounds”. An object which is in no way becoming extinct, on the contrary, it is living a small yet constant revival. One person, one record and one single magenta-red backdrop are the main characters of this project. A strongly desired series that became a little less rigorous in the ways with which the photographer and the photographed subject - confronting one another even for a long time before the shooting - have discovered as a way of personalizing the session: an object, a garment, a position, an expression. The project was born through the simple word-of-mouth between friends at the studio of Saini in the area of Balon, the multiethnic heart of Turin. It then became, as it went along, an itinerant work in progress with exhibitions and sessions that were open to the public (in every sense: it was possible to see a selection of the portraits which were already produced, to watch the artist at work and more than anything to be photographed with one’s own favourite record). The project was carried out also in Milan, Genoa, Palermo, Cagliari, Bologna and Rome. Exhibitions in form of an MBD RECORD STORE of the records and the 12x12" printed photographs of the portrayed people were held at Spazio Azimut, Turin, Italy 2009, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy 2009, X3 Gallery, Palermo 2012. http://cargocollective.com/lucasaini/MY-BEAUTIFUL-DISCO-Italy http://cargocollective.com/lucasaini/My-Beautiful-DISCO

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